Posted by Lena on July 31, 2001 at 17:06:16:
In Reply to: Re: Help: Foreign words in Greek posted by Mike A. on July 31, 2001 at 14:40:13:
That book sounds really interesting. Thank you! Is it an easy one to get a hold of?
: Lena is right. I have a dictionary of foreign words in the Greek language (by Hlias Konstantinou, publishing house: epikairotita, 1992) with a statistics. According to this source, concerning 4311 Greek words the following are the most important languages from which these words have their origin:
: - Italian: 957 words
: - Turkish: 904
: - French: 788
: - Latin: 551
: - English: 290
: - Venetian: 173
: - Hebrew or Aramaic: 97
: - Arabic: 81
: ...