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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!
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))
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 :-)
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.)
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.
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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