the Greek language · Modern Greek · ellipsis of sandwich grec; kebab sandwich
çekim: çoğul grecs
eş: grégeois, hellène, hellénique
köken: Inherited from Middle French grec, borrowed from Latin graecus, from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós). This learned form supplanted the older grégeois (now only in feu grégeois), from Old French grezois, derived from inherited Old French gri(e)u with the ending -ois, or possibly stemming from a Vulgar Latin *graeciscus. The feminine form in -cque (instead of *grèque) reflects an older spelling…
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic грькъ (grĭkŭ), from Old Church Slavonic грькъ (grĭkŭ), from Proto-Slavic *grьkъ. By surface analysis, back-formation from гре́цкий (gréckij).
Greek or Hellene (a native, citizen or inhabitant of Greece, or someone who has Greek (Hellenic) ancestry) · for adjectival use, see έλληνας (éllinas)
çekim: çoğul έλληνες · tamlayan έλληνα
köken: From Ancient Greek Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek, Hellene”), from the accusative singular τόν (tón, “the”) Ἕλληνα (Héllēna, “Greek, Hellene”). In Hellenistic Christian times: "Gentile, pagan". In Medieval Greek, the sense was either a "Greek" or a derogatory term for an "idolater" (calling himself Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos), regaining its "Greek" sense after the 11th century. In Early Modern Greek the ethnonymic…
Ήρθαν ένας Έλληνας και μία Ελληνίδα. Είναι οι έλληνες φίλοι μου.
Greek, Grecian (of, from, or relating to Greece, its people or language)
çekim: çoğul görögök
köken: From a Slavic language, compare Bulgarian грък (grǎk), Serbo-Croatian Grk (“Greek”), from Latin Graecus (“Greek”), from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós, “a character in Greek mythology”).
aile: görögdinnye, Görögország, görögtűz, ógörög, görög ábécé, görög saláta