Don't forget the genitive!Έχουμε πτώσεις στην γραμματική , ονομαστικη , γενική αιτιατική και κλητική.
Wine infused with herbs, I suppose!To έλεον , το λάδι ,to ελεολαδο in new greeks ,is related with therapy from the ancient times with with wine.
Just so long as you don't try to relate it all back to Nahuatl! We had enough of THAT somewhere else!. . .So I guess Greek originated Japanese as well, you never know
Brazilian dude
Same for the Roman Catholic Mass, where what was once Latin is now in the vernacular.. . .
In an "ordinary" High Mass (without communion) in the Church of Sweden, item #4 is "Lord, have mercy upon us". Those words in Swedish, as a heading, are in our hymn books followed by "(Kyrie)", so this vocative is well known by all frequent and sufficiently interested churchgoers in Protestant Sweden.
(In the sixties, "exotic" versions of Mass were very popular in Sweden, especially among the religious youth. We listened to records like the African Misa Luba, and the Misa Criolla by Ramirez, learned the Kyrie-Gloria-Credo-Sanctus-Agnus dei sequence, and compared it to the almost identical progression we listed to on every Sunday.)
Which in English became:Ite Missa est.
Deo Gratias.
Because that last line could be interpreted two ways,Go, the Mass is ended.
Thanks be to God!
the Mass now ends:The Mass is ended. Go in peace and love to serve The Lord.
Thanks be to God.
It also appears in Tom Lehrer's classic, "The Vatican Rag:". . .
And, yes, the Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison sequence is used in many churches as a corporate recognition of sin and (subsequent) request for mercy.
There are many fine musical settings of that text!
-Tim
(There's a MIDI link on the lyric page should you wish to attempt singing it for yourself.Do whatever steps you want, if
You have cleared them with the Pontiff.
Everybody say his own
Kyrie eleison,
Doin' the Vatican Rag.
)Years and years ago, I read somewhere that baka was the only swear word in Japanese, abuse instead mainly using circumscripts like in Chinese, "You rotten turtle egg" etc. The explanation of baka was that it was a loan from English "beggar". Several years later, but still long ago, I read an explanation using other vowels in "beggar".βλάκας - stupid bears a striking resemblance with Japanese 馬鹿 baka. So I guess Greek originated Japanese as well, you never know
Brazilian dude
How can one gain a title by marriage, and yet be the first to hold that title ? Or does the above period mean indicate that William Longspee gained the title of someone else who was the first Earl of Salisbury, presumably by marrying his widow ?...... By marriage, he gained the title of the first Earl of Salisbury.
What has happened is that the οικος in κυριου οικος has been replaced with the Latin equivalent domus, which was then transposed to the front of κυριου and then agglutinated with the latter to form a single word. Our confusion arises from the fact that words like «church» have rather come to refer to a building, to the exclusion of other things «appertaining to the Lord»....The word church (and kyrka) comes from the Greek κυριου οικος (kyriou oikos), meaning Lord's house, or κυριακος (kyriakos), meaning 'dominical'.
If the former version is taken, the addition of a Latin 'domus' seems repetitious.
Back then, the church called itself by the Greek word ekklesia, the word the Athenians used for their wide open assembly, the world's first participatory democracy. (The Apostle Peter, to whom the Vatican awards the title of first pope, was one of many leaders in the primitive church, as far from an absolute monarch as could be, a man whose most salient characteristic was his frequent and humble confession that he was wrong.) In using ekklesia to describe their church, the early Christians meant to emphasize that their society within a society acted not out of political power but only out of the power of love, love for all as equal children of God. But they went much further than the Athenians, for they permitted no restrictions on participation: no citizens and noncitizens, no Greeks and non-Greeks, no patriarchs and submissive females. For, as St. Paul put it repeatedly, "There is no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; for all are one in Christ Jesus."
gailrThe section of a Cruciform Cathedral located between the Nave and the main Altar. But be careful! The exact perimeter of the Choir is often disputable from cathedral to cathedral. By definition: the place where the psalms are sung. Loosely used to define the whole East end of a cathedral, and as a synonym for Chancel.
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