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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
The summer begins. It’s time to learn Greek words and common phrases for the sea and the Greek islands. Due to the fact that Greeks live in a country surrounded by the sea, which forms many peninsulas and islands, they use many words for the sea. H θάλασσα, the Greek word for the sea, is only one of them. In English literature is used the word archipelagos, which is Greek, το αρχιπέλαγος.
ΤΟ ΠΕΛΑΓΟΣ IS THE OPEN SEA
The open sea is το πέλαγος, (-pelagos). Greece is surrounded by water, the Aegean Sea to the East, το Αιγαίο Πέλαγος, and the Ionian Sea to the West, το Ιόνιο Πέλαγος. We often omit the word Πέλαγος and we just say Αιγαίο or Ιόνιο.
ARCHIPELAGOS
Το αρχιπέλαγος, archipelagos, is even wider than πέλαγος. The prefix αρχι- (archi-) means the top, first in a ranking, and το πέλαγος. This prefix archi- is found in English in words as archbishop, the first in the ranking of the bishops.
ΤΑ ΝΗΣΙΑ ARE THE ISLANDS
Το νησί (TO niSEE) is the island in Greek. It is a noun of neuter grammatical gender and takes the article το. Nevertheless, Greek islands are of female grammatical gender. We say η Μύκονος, η Κέρκυρα, η Χίος, η Λέσβος, η Σαντορίνη, η Λήμνος, η Σίφνος. Is the reason their beauty, or because they are thought of as the mother land? It can be for the same reason that the regions of Greece as η Πελοπόννησος, η Μακεδονία, η Ήπειρος, η Θράκη are of feminine grammatical gender too.
COMMON PHRASES
Η Μύκονος είναι νησί του Αιγαίου Πελάγους.
EE MEEkonos EEne niSEE TOO eYEoo peLAyoos.
Mykonos is an Aegean Sea island.
Η Σαντορίνη είναι νησί του Αιγαίου.
EE santoREEni EEne niSEE TOO eYEoo peLAyoos.
Santorini is an Aegean Sea island.
Η Κέρκυρα είναι νησί του Ιονίου Πελάγους.
EE KErkira EEne niSEE TOO ioNEEoo peLAyoos.
Corfu is an Ionian Sea island.
Η Ιθάκη είναι νησί του Ιονίου.
EE iTHAki EEne niSEE TOO ioNEEoo.
Ithaka is an Ionian Sea island.
Η Αμοργός, η Ρόδος, η Κως, η Χίος, η Λέσβος και η Λήμνος είναι νησιά του Αιγαίου.
EE amoRYOS, EE RODos, EE KOS, EE HEEos, EE LEsvos KE EE LEEmnos EEne nisiA TOO eYEoo.
Amorgos, Rhodes, Kos, Chios, Lesvos and Lemnos are Aegean Sea islands.
Η Ιθάκη, η Κέρκυρα, η Κεφαλλονιά, η Λευκάδα και η Ζάκυνθος είναι νησιά του Ιονίου.
EE iTHAki, EE KErkira, EE kefaloniA, EE lefKAda KE EE ZAkinthos EEne nisiA TOO ioNEEoo.
BASIC VOCABULARY
Greek word Pronunciation Meaning
Το πέλαγος TO PElayos the sea
Το Αιγαίο πέλαγος TO eYEo PElayos the Aegean Sea
Το Ιόνιο Πέλαγος TO iOnio PElayos the Ionian Sea
Το νησί TO niSEE the island
Τα νησιά TA nisiA the islands
Η Μύκονος EE MEEkonos Mykonos
Η Σαντορίνη EE santoREEni Santorini
Η Αμοργός EE amoRYOS Amorgos
Η Ρόδος EE ROdos Rhodes
Η Κως EE KOS Kos
Η Χίος EE HEEos Chios
Η Λέσβος EE LEsvos Lesvos
Η Κέρκυρα EE KErkira Corfu
Η Ιθάκη EE iTHAki Ithaka
Η Ζάκυνθος EE ZAkinthos Zante
Η Λευκάδα EE leFKAda Lefkada
η Κεφαλλονιά EE kefaloniA Cephalonia
Του πελάγους TOO peLAyoos of the sea
Του Αιγαίου TOO eYEoo of the Aegean
Του Ιονίου TOO ioNEEoo of the Ionian
Το αρχιπέλαγος TO arhiPElayos the archipelagos
Η αρχή EE arHEE the beginning, the power
Η Πελοπόννησος EE peloPOnisos Peloponnese
Η Μακεδονία EE makedoNEEa Macedonia
Η Θράκη EE THRAki Thrace
Η Ήπειρος EE EEpiros Epirus
PRONUNCIATION KEY
i (idiom), ee (bee), e (energy), o (organism), oo (boot), y (yes), h (helium), th (theory), d (the). The capitalized syllables are accented.
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