+243 The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Nice, but you got the wrong website, dictionary.com is over there ----->

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thanks for clearin' that up.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Give me a word, any word, and I show you that the root of that word is Greek.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

duck. Sausage.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh yeah?? What about KIMONO??

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Kimono, kimono, kimono. Ha! Of course! Kimono is come from the Greek word himona, is mean winter. So, what do you wear in the wintertime to stay warm? A robe. You see: robe, kimono. There you go!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I read "return" as "rectum". It made a lot more sense the second time i read it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is a quote from the book Ignorance by Milan Kundera. Top of chapter two.

by Anonymous 12 years ago