γλέντι
Greek
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Turkish eğlenti, with removal of initial vowel and stress placement on -έν- producing a noun-verb pair γλέντι (glénti) / γλεντώ (glentó) that mirrors κυνήγι (kynígi, “hunt, chase”, noun) / κυνηγώ (kynigó, “to hunt, to chase”, verb).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editγλέντι • (glénti) n (plural γλέντια, diminutive γλεντάκι)
Declension
editDeclension of γλέντι
Related terms
edit- see: γλεντάω (glentáo)
References
edit- ^ γλέντι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language