#Usher meaning in greek pdf#

The word volta also exists in Catalan, Galician and Portuguese, and is cognate with Spanish vuelta. So a volta in this sense is a ‘turn’, up and down and back again, in the pleasurable presence of an indeterminate number of other people who, for whatever reasons of their own, happen to be engaged in the same activity. The idea of ‘turning’ is embedded in the Modern Greek word and usage: βόλτα is a word of Latin origin ( volgere, to turn).

A version of it exists among Jewish communities on the Sabbath. The custom used to exist in widely different cultures, including for example, in Portugal. During certain hours of the early evening, around dusk, everyone in the town who might feel like going for a walk takes a saunter or stroll up and down the main street. The custom of the evening promenade is expressed in Italian by the word passeggiata and in Serbian, Czech and Slovak by the common word korzo. ‘let’s take a turn,’ ‘let’s go for a walk/ stroll,’ ‘let’s stretch our legs.’ The word βόλτα is also used to mean, more precisely, ‘evening promenade’, βραδινή βόλτα. The Greek expression πάμε βόλτα means literally * let’s go a turn, 6 i.e.

The noun βόλτα is a noun meaning ‘turn’ and also ‘walk’, ‘stroll’. The title ‘Volta’ itself comes from Modern Greek. Here’s an etymological passage from the long introduction by the poem’s author, Richard Berengarten:

#Usher meaning in greek pdf#

Seventy-four of these poems are translations of one poem, the seventy-fifth.” You can read the English poem (the original) at wood s lot for November 18, 2009, where I got the link it and all the translations (in, among many others, Maltese, Mongolian, Nepali, Nigerian Pidgin, North Eastern English, and Norwegian) are available in pdf form via the first link. Volta: A Multilingual Anthology “contains seventy-five poems in seventy-five languages.