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do you have more than one word for another ???

2006-09-01 07:58:51 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

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If you mean, is there more than one Greek word that may be translated into English as "another", yes, there is more than one.

But this is misleading, because the English word has more than one meaning. More important, the distinction between the English uses is generally clear (if one is speaking the language properly). So it's not a case of Greek making distinctions English does not, nor even of making them better.

an·oth·er
1. One more; an additional: 'had another cup of coffee'.
2. Distinctly different from the first: 'took another route to town'.
3. One of an undetermined number or group: 'for one reason or another'
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/another

You can see from the context that the word is used in different senses in the examples given. . . and that there need not be any confusion.

Greek chooses to express these things differently, with two distinct words in place of meanings 1 and 2 above. Basically,
For #1 above -- allos
For #2 -- heteros

(A further observation -- very rarely is one word in one language the EXACT equivalent of one word in another language. Every language 'cuts things up' a little differently. So, just as in this case there may seem to be 'two Greek words' where the English has one, in many other cases we must use two distinct English words to translate different uses of "the same Greek word". You might start with the Greek word "logos", which commonly means "word", but is not identical to English "word", so must often be translated in other way.)

2006-09-07 00:29:34 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0 0

The word for "another" is in Greek "άλλος"{alos} (m), "άλλη"{ali} (f), "άλλο"{alo} (n).
We also have two words for "another", these two: "ακόμη ένας"{akomi enas} (m).

That was "another" answer from
"ακόμη ένας" Greek on the net.

Give the best answer to another "άλλο" Greek...

2006-09-01 12:36:15 · answer #2 · answered by Greek 4 U 2 · 1 0

many

allos, eteros, diaforos, epipleon, akoma (ena), diaforetikos,

it depends on what you want to say - to be more accurate, it is better to know the exact sentence

2006-09-01 11:50:07 · answer #3 · answered by ..Tolia.. 5 · 0 0

it can be; enas allos, kapoios allos

2006-09-01 08:05:49 · answer #4 · answered by Depy greece!! 4 · 1 0

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