Υλαγγυλάγκη
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Υλαγγυλάγκη is a hapax legomenon of Katharevousa Greek.
It is a Hellenized rendition of Ylang-ylang, which has been adopted as a loanword (υλάνγκ-υλάνγκ or υλάγκ-υλάγκ) in everyday Greek.
The word occurs only once in “Psychology of a Syriot husband”, a 1894 short story by Emmanouil Roidis and it was probably coined by him.[1]
An alternate spelling of the word (υλαγκυλάγκη instead of υλαγγυλάγκη) occurs in a different edition of Roidis' story and is probably only a typographical error.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Emmanouil Roidis [Εμμανουήλ Ροΐδης], Collected Works [Άπαντα], Ermis [Ερμής], Athens, 1978, p. 44.
- ↑ Phaidon K. Bouboulidis [Φαίδων Κ. Μπουμπουλίδης], Anthology of texts from Modern Greek Literature. First Volume: Short stories and Narrations [Ανθολογία Κειμένων Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας. Τόμος Πρώτος: Διήγημα και Αφήγημα], National and Kapodistrian University of Athens [Εθνικόν και Καποδιστριακόν Πανεπιστήμιον Αθηνών], Athens, 1972, p. 275.