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[SKI-preo]

How "cep" became jebee, hellim became Halloumi...

Like the traditional Cypriot song of the pezevengi pou eshi halloumi stin mbounka.

Vouka has to be latin but i think we get it through the lusignians la Bouche means mouth, compare with Italian La Bocca or Spanish la boca.

What about when used in the context of "evalen to voukon-" he took a mouth full.

[kafenes]

The correct form would be Fourkastos, the noun being Fourka which has a mainland Greek equivalent Fouria, meaning rush, temper or furious with which it is cognate.

A good example of mainland Greek usage is the rebetiko song by Tsitsanis, I litania tou manga:

"Kai na sou o arhangelos se mia megali FOURIA, ap'ta doumania ta polla ton epiase i mastoura"

The archangel was angry because the dudes had decided to carry out the "litany" in church.

The origin of the word is likely to be Latin, and I am guessing that it comes frem the same root as the Italian "furioso".

On the other hand it could be pure Choirokitian and I am totally wrong.

Thanks Nikitas. This sounds like the most probable definition.

[kurupetos]

How "cep" became jebee, hellim became Halloumi...

Like the traditional Cypriot song of the pezevengi pou eshi halloumi stin mbounka.

Halloumi stin mbounga?

[georgios100]

Georgie,

Varoshiotis from which part of town? I lived acros the Old Syntechnies. Alexandrou street 8.

Ploutonos 7, Stavros, right at the intersection (Ploutonos & Platonos) SW corner, across from the cemetery. Approx 500 meters from THOI and Timios Stavros church. The old cemetery was behind my back yard. Opposite my home was the Teoulides residence. Further south (towards the beach was the Xenis periptero).

My dad had a kafeneio there & next to it was a taxi office (tel 3311). Yes folks, back then (1960), telephone numbers were only 4 digits... not many of them around.