10 PROFESSOR BLACKIE ON THE 
able characteristic that strikes us in the Neo-Hellenic dialect, is the remarkable 
change and extension that has taken place in the usage of certain words, 
giving rise to significations either altogether different from classical usage, or 
deriving from that usage only their late and scarcely apparent germ. Of these 
I shall here set down some of the more remarkable. 
onKow, 
Baoralo, 
KOpLapove (dw), 
MopeErn. 
to raise, 
to refrain, restrain, 
to give one’s self airs, 
to admire, 
ANCIENT. 
weigh, balance. 
carry. 
vault or arch. 
TATOO, to promise, arrange. 
TUVTPEXO, to assist, run together. 
idioma, manners, a peculiarity. 
aro, sing, prate. 
Xovo, conceal, heap up. 
cave (cdlw), suffice, save. 
KUPLOS, a father, a master. 
Kop Bow, deceive, to bind up, gird. 
Xavevo, digest, cast metal 
podaa, to die (of an animal), to make a slight noise. 
Bpadd, the evening, slow. 
Tpoevos, a match-maker, patronus (in politics). 
ThaKw, oppress, overwhelm, lay with flat plates. 
EEWTUKY, a fairy, extraneous, foreign. 
abuyo, to spare life, to die. 
PETEOPLT LA, an amusing tale, floating in the air. 
Bacrrevo, to set (of the sun), reign. 
TooaTos, a person of no account, from whence. 
Xavo, lose, — gape. 
avyy, morning, brightness. 
Bava (Baivo), place, set, go. 
plava, to arrive, to get before. 
dvovtis, the spring, opening. 
aharn, shoulder, flat part of an oar. 
UTOKELLEVO, a person, a subject. 
apacow, to land, to crash. 
oKidlopar, to be afraid, to shade one’s self. 
adealo, to fire a gun, to give an amnesty. 
TVEV[LATLKO, a clergyman, windy. 
TAXV, the morning, swift. 
