Beetroot!!! Please can you help me with some Greek???

[essbee]

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I think hello and goodbye are the same phrase aren't they? Pronounced Yassou?

essbee, DH speaks Greek, he'll be home in about 10 minutes if you can wait that long. Asked DS1 (who has greek lessons at school) but he's gone all shy and won't tell me. Yassou is hello, never used it for goodbye, but have spent the last 16 yrs trying to avoid learning any

hello and goodbye are both "yiasou"

go away is "feeye",(pronounced FEE-YE, accentuate the first sylable)

HTH

Any old Greek names??

Incidently, what Greek names? Or do you mean any Greek names? I'm curious!

You can have kiddies middle names - Alexander, Lysander and Athene - definitely old and greek.

Still curious.

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typical names in our family are George, Helen and Michael

Ok, in greek then Yorgios, Eleni and Mihialis.

Kids in greek are Nikolas, Matthias and Lydia

While returning from holiday on Rhodes last year my DS2 was sick all over DH (really stank) he had to buy a new t-shirt at the airport, the only thing he could find was one of the Athens 2004 t-shirts, it has a cartoon man on the front and the word "Doibos" (or that's what it looks like, it is in handwriting style print). To get to the point, does anyone know what this means?

Sorry for the hijack essbee, the only Greek words I know are Yammas - cheers and arrgh, it's on the tip of my tongue, it means "move on". Don't suppose that helps!

i knew a lovely greek waiter called Aris.....am i right in thinking that yiannis is greek for john? or am i way off?

Goodbye can also be 'adios'

'yassou' and 'yammas' are much the same thing really. They are 'yia sou' and 'yia mas' and are used as a toast meaning 'to you' and 'to us', also 'yia sas' meaning 'to you (plural)'.

As you have said 'yia sou' is used like 'hi' as well.

Thanks Beetroot.

Demented, DH says that its not a word (or at least not one that he knows!) he thinks it is the characters name?

Ah, thanks Lydialemon I never thought of that.

On doing a little research DH has discovered it actually is 'Phevos', its just those dodgy greek characters that make it look like 'doibos'

Athene and Phevos are the offical 2004 Olympic mascots.

Is this him here?

That's him lydialemon! I think it's the Phevos waves picture that DH has on his t-shirt. I am ashamed to admit that I didn't think of searching on the web.

Big thankyou to your DH!