Need a few words

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Iceline
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Need a few words

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Hello people, I'm new here. I study greek and latin at my school, as well as hebrew, I'm also doing ancient egyptian in my free time. Someone asked me to translate a few words. I have a greek-dutch dictonary, but not dutch to greek, so I can't look up the words I need, could any of you help me? Here are the words:

Support
Transparent
Quality
Experience
Multicolored (as in: having many colors)
Instrument
Feeling
A young person (youngling, young one, but preferably one word)

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Re: Need a few words

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Iceline wrote:
Support
Transparent
Quality
Experience
Multicolored (as in: having many colors)
Instrument
Feeling
A young person (youngling, young one, but preferably one word)
βοηθέω ἢ βοηθῶ, βοήθεια, ἄλλως· ἐπιρρώνυμι, ἐπίρρωσις διαφανής, διαυγής ποιότης, ποιόν πεῖρα, ἐμπειρία πολύχρωμος, πολύχροος ἢ πολύχρους, ποικιλόχρους ὄργανον αἴσθησις, αἴσθημα νεανίας

Iceline
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Post by Iceline »

That I do not really understand, could it be given to me in a greek font, or could some one explain this to me :)

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Iceline wrote:That I do not really understand, could it be given to me in a greek font, or could some one explain this to me :)
Please see the second post in this Greek forum, Representing Greek - Font Notes for New Users.

A very useful dictionary, since you seem comfortable in English, is Woodhouse: English-Greek Dictionary.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/http://www.scholiastae.org/
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Post by Iceline »

Thank you, I was looking for a post like that, but couldn't fine it

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