Im looking for old latin/greek words meaning: Spirit, echo, gem, jewel, shadow and life force. Any help I can get would be greatly appreciated.
2006-12-24 03:13:17 · 3 answers · asked by bow_river_bounty_hunter 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Greek:
spirit =πνεύμα (Pnevma, e as in lay)
echo =ηχώ (eehho, o as in boy, h as in horse)
gem =λίθος (lithos, meaning stone, πολύτιμος λίθος=politimos lithos=valuable stone=gem)
jewel ..see http://colet.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/chuck/woodhouse_pages.pl?page_num=463 (same location for other words)
soul =ψυχή (pseehhee)
shadow =σκιά (mostly), είδωλον (skia, a as in bat, eedolon, d as in the)
life force =ζωογόνος δύναμις (zo o go nos dinamis, g as light as w in away, d as above)
Correcting the first answerer, echo=echo.
Also, little stone=lapillus.
2006-12-25 05:00:49 · answer #1 · answered by supersonic332003 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I'm Greek and I know that during ancient times our language was affected by other nations (for example our alphabet was based on the alphabet of the Phoenix.The Phoenix's alphabet had no vowels and Greeks enriched it). Latin language and then English language was affected by Greek words that were original in Greece since here the sciences and some meanings such as "democracy,athlet,planet,pharmacy" etc.thrived for first time in Greece.After the Roman empire it was natural that languages that weren't so strong as then to be affected by the Latin language. To conclude,if you try to find the roots of all the languages you'll get confused as many languages have taken part to build the modern languages.
2016-05-23 03:54:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latin
Spirit - anima
Echo - echoos
Gem - gemma
Jewel - lapis
Shadow - umbra
Life force - spiritus
Added:echoos, echi N F 2 7 F [XXXBO] , echo
2006-12-24 03:27:32 · answer #3 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋