The Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8Stillman, William James
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The Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8
Stillman, William James
Crete (Greece) -- History -- Insurrection, 1866-1868
ἂγομαι, πηγαίνω, I go.
ἀκατεχος, ἀνίδιος, Inexperienced.
ἀναλαμπὴ, φλόγα, Flame.
ἀναλώματα, ---- Emeutes.
ἁνω, ἔσω, (used to oxen), Haw, jee.
ἀποβόλη, (used in tracking animals), Spoor.
ἀποταχυάς, πρίv, Before.
ἀργατινή, ἑσπέρα, Evening.
{I leave (the Cretan in
κάμπτω, ἀναχωρῶ, { the sense of the American
{ "skedaddle").
δροσια, (lit. dew), τίποτε, Nothing.
δῶρον, (a gift), μπαχσίσι, (Turkish).
ἐργῶ (ῥιγῶ), κρυόνω, I am cold.
καlλταλῶ, φθείρω, I destroy.
κτῆμα, κτῆνος, A beast of burden.
{Bare (of mountains generally),
{ this being the appellation
μαλάρα, ---- { of the central
{ mountains of the Sphakian
{ range, _Madara vouna_.
{A peculiar kind of cream
μαλάκα, ---- { cheese--not the _misithra_
{ of Greece.
μὰιαλ, λογομαχία, A wrangling.
νύχι, τουφεκόπετρα, Gun-flint.
παρασύρω, σερνω, I sweep.
παρίξω, ἐξέρχωμαι, I come out.
πόρος, δίοδος, Passage.
πράμα (πράγμα), τίποτε, Nothing.
ταῦτερου, όυριον, To-morrow.
χαλέπα, πετρόλοφος, {A rocky site (generally
{ applied to villages).
There are few Turkish words in use, and those mainly of objects
brought by the Turks: βουδαλά, a lubber; τσιμπούχι, a pipe; τουφέκι,
a gun, etc. A few Italian: καπιτανός, captain; βετέμα (_vendemmia_),
olive crop; βίστατο (guastato); ματινάδα, a song, and some names
of implements, with idioms which cling, as the use of πίυ, the
comparative, instead of τέρος.
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