Similarities Between Greek and Sicilian
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Published 2024-01-06
The Greek history in Sicily goes back to the 8th century BCE when the first Greek colonies were founded in eastern Sicily as the Chalcidian Greeks founded Zancle, Naxos, Leontinoi and Katane. The Corinthians founded Syracuse and the Megareans Megara Hyblaea, while the Cretans and Rhodians founded Gela.
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Greek (ελληνικά) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages with a written record of over 3,000 years, easily making it the oldest documented Indo-European language. The Greek alphabet, originating from the Phoenician script, was the basis of numerous other scripts, such as Latin, Cyrillic, Coptic, Gothic, and Armenian. The Greek language has virtually impacted other languages in every corner of the world, being an important component of Western civilization, the Christian religion, and the language of some of the fundamental texts of science, astronomy, and mathematics. The Greek language today holds official status in Greece and Cyprus, and is recognized as a minority language in Albania, Armenia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, and Ukraine.
Sicilian is a Romance language primarily spoken on the Italian island of Sicily.
All Comments (21)
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I like that the Sicilian girl's name is Gaia (=Γαία in Greek), which means Earth... And nobody noticed that
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Mediterranean beauties...
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Both are Goddesses name . Athena & Gaia
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Magna Grecia
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🇬🇷🇮🇹magna grecia...for ever brothers.
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In Cyprus till this day we use the word “Koroua” which means young girl !
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A Greek word that's probably derived from Sicilian "picciridu" is "pitsirikos/πιτσιρίκος" and it also means young boy in modern Greek.
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Good to know about some of the common words between Sicilian and Greek
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Another word in Sicilian is "bucale" a glass pitcher to dispense water. I believe there is a similar word in Greek that means glass bottle.
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In some calabrian villages and in the sicilian city of Messina there are people who speaks old greek
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Loved this 💕 As for the first Greek word for a young boy (koros), in Cypriot Greek we still use its feminine form -- Kori -- to address girls we're friends with. Only in the vocative form, but yes, ever so frequently! Well done, all of you. It was fun to play along and find out new nuggets of information :)
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Great video. Gaia (Miss Earth) totally looks like a classic greek beauty. Love Sicilian people, very much like us. Btw i am a greek from german diaspora.
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I am Hungarian, and there were many Greek words that we write in Hungarian only with a different meaning.. for example: kóros, árpa, apó
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The Sicilian girl looks so Greek it is insane. Before the video started I thought I was looking at 2 Greek girls.
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Antik dönemde Güney İtalya Büyük Yunanistan olarak adlandırılmıştır.
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Actually, Greeks still use the word "Kouros" to refer to a good looking young man, and it still survives in the word "kourion" (barber shop for men) and "kourazome" (κουράζομαι = I get tired from hard work, as only young men work) . In fact, scratch every modern Greek word and you will find that it is actually timeless in origin and "semasiological" (semantic) context.
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cherry = cereja glue = cola rope/chord = corda harp = harpa ghost = fantasma rabbit/bunny = coelho clock/watch = relógio diamond = diamante See how similiar the words in Portuguese are. Greetings from Brazil.
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Languages are the evidence of our history. They speak for us
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In Portuguese: cirasa / κεράσι (kerási) = cereja fantasimu / φάντασμα (fántasma) = fantasma codda / κόλλα (kólla) = cola cunigghiu / κουνέλι (kounéli) = coelho raloggiu / ρολόι (rolói) = relógio arpa / άρπα (árpa) = harpa :goodvibes:
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This video is really fascinating because it demonstrates the Greek history that is very ancient in Sicily actually going back to the foundation of the first Greek colonies around the mid 8th century BC. The Greeks of Sicily were known as Siceliotes. Over the following centuries many conflicts between the city-states occurred until around 276 BC Pyrrhus of Epirus managed to conquer the whole island except Carthaginian Lilybaeum. After the First Punic War in 241 BC the island was conquered by the Romans.
