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[Facts] Etymology of Greek names
Hi to all my old friends ar BtN :-) Dropped by to let you know that I brought back to life my old Etymologica.org site, a project delving in the etymology of Greek names. Needs a great deal of work, any comments are welcome!

This message was edited 10/24/2015, 12:01 AM

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Hey Pavlos! Good to hear from you. I hope you are doing okay :)I just looked around at your website. Fortunately I had Ancient Greek, so I know the alphabet, bc I needed it to navigate. I could find names by clicking on a letter, scrolling down and looking for it alphabetically, but not through the search. For example:
"Philip" linked to Φαέθουσα (Phaethousa) – Φώτιος (Photios) (even copying and pasting "Φίλιππος" gave methis)
"Alexander" linked to Ἀβάσκαντος (Abaskantos) – Ἀχιλλεὺς (Achilles)Or maybe I'm just doing something wrong.
Anyway, nice work, bc when I look in the list everything is clearly explained and the blue and pink help :) I'm kinda curious what you'd do for unisex names (like Pallas, which is pink now, but is used as a male name as well (for the Titan))
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Mar, so good to hear from you!I am not at all happy with the way one searches / navigates Etymologica, but my technical web-design skills are next to zero. Ideally I would like the site to be more like a dictionary (as with BtN) but I just don't know how :-/ Will try to get a little help from some friends!Thanks for the tip about uniisex names, I may will have to chose another color maybe purple for those :-)
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Link, Please...Looking for your URL.(The site in your profile is coming up in what appears to be an Oriental script.)

This message was edited 10/27/2015, 12:05 AM

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Hurrah, your site is a terrific resource Pavlos!Hope you and your family are well.
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Thanks for your kind words Mike, my family and I are in good health, much more than I can say about the Greek economy. BtN is doing great :-)
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Welcome back!It's often seemed quiet without you - hope you'll manage to pop in now and then.I'll give Etymologica a good look later; right now I'm in Rugby World Cup mode and unable to focus on anything else.
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I certainly will! Great to see that you are still here :-)
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