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[garbitsch]

Bananiot wrote: I thought dede is grandmother and stede certainly comes from dede. Grandpa is buyuk something. In many villages husbands used to called their wives affectionate "bulla mou". Perhaps it comes from the potato-like tuber bulla, which is white inside. And chifteteli is a dance but chifte means double, because the musical organs had double strings, pretty much like a bouzuki. Karpouz is surely arabic.

Dede is grandfather, nene or nine is grandmother. but more formally they are called "büyük baba" (dede) and "büyük anne" (nene).

Tel means "wire" or "string".

I never heard people calling each other "bullika" but my aunty keeps calling me "bullim" - my bulli. Bulli means chicken and comes from the Italian word "pollo". But of course bulli resembles bullik as well.

[Bullika]

It is extremely common in Luricina for grandmothers to pinch their grandsons >>>> and repeat the words "Bullikamou re!" At this point the boy gets scared and runs away. We had this alot in my childhood. Sometimes random old ladies would pinch me down under and I d get scared and wet myself and everyone would laugh so hard that the roof of the building would move. Sometimes theyd say "We are going to circumcize you..." just to scare me, then theyd say it was a joke.

[depurple]

Boys let me tell you some facts: When I speak Cypriots:
Carcolla (Bed)
Tsiara(Chair)
Batiha(Watermelon)
Stoupa To (Shut up)
In da pou kanmins re Koumbarao (What ya doing Mate)
The Greeks say stop talking Turkish and start talking Greek and I say if you look at the World Book excyclopedia the first known civilized languages was Phoenician and Cypriots and then the Greeks adapted and refine both language to com up with the Greek language: So tell the Greeks to stop talking Cypriots:
Check it out on Page 367 (The World Book Excyclopedia)RE & RA (The Egyptian Gods)

[Bullika]

depurple wrote: Boys let me tell you some facts: When I speak Cypriots:
Carcolla (Bed)
Tsiara(Chair)
Batiha(Watermelon)
Stoupa To (Shut up)
In da pou kanmins re Koumbarao (What ya doing Mate)
The Greeks say stop talking Turkish and start talking Greek and I say if you look at the World Book excyclopedia the first known civilized languages was Phoenician and Cypriots and then the Greeks adapted and refine both language to com up with the Greek language: So tell the Greeks to stop talking Cypriots:
Check it out on Page 367 (The World Book Excyclopedia)RE & RA (The Egyptian Gods)

Could you do me a little favour?
and write up a page of Cypriot Greek phrases., I d love to learn.

[depurple]

Buillka great idea but I am not a very good computer whiz we should get erolz to do it he is great at things like this:
Make Cypriot Word Data Base:CWDB
And to add to this is:
Kelle (Head)
Rotsa (Stone)
Polymori (Tomato)
Silkla (Bucket)

[Bullika]

depurple wrote: Buillka great idea but I am not a very good computer whiz we should get erolz to do it he is great at things like this:
Make Cypriot Word Data Base:CWDB
And to add to this is:
Kelle (Head)
Rotsa (Stone)
Polymori (Tomato)
Silkla (Bucket)

i curious as to the origins of these words, where they came from, which language for example.

[depurple]

If we can form some sort of a Cypriots dialect Database them we can have:
The Word:
The Meaning:
The Origins:
cheers

[cypezokyli]

pomylori :) nicht polymori. i think thats italian.

from what i ve heard patiha comes from the sound it makes when it brakes: PAT :)

there exists a Greek Cypriot dictionary btw, where we could solve our problem with stete. but its quite expensive :(

[cypezokyli]

and pouli is bird in greek
we also say :pouli mou

we also use tel - teli

[Bullika]

I recently heard the word Gossifo, apparently its a kind of bird, but I like the sound of this word and I want to try to use it more in conversation. Gossifo has a nice ring to it.

[depurple]

Erolz where is this database?
Here are some more words:
Sicla (Bucket)
Fountana(Tap)
Hiros(Pig)
Pississ (Scrooge)
Pesevengis (Cock hold)
Rialia (Money)
Hisomilo (Apricots)
Brotsa(Fork)

[cypezokyli]

fountana is also italian

rial is the saudi arabian currency

pesevegis is turkish if i am not mistaken in turkish it means pimp

the rest i should really check

[Bullika]

how about Fortigo another fine Cypriot word meaning articulated lorry in Gibrizlija! or road train Aussue (for you depurple)

[depurple]

Man have we got a mixture of words or what!