

Neither LSJ nor Woodhouse have a word for "drawer".
Modern Greek συρτάρι suggests the form συρτάριον may have once existed.
Does anybody know of a word for "drawer" in Koine (or Classical) Greek?
A carpenter was a skilled tradesman, and Rome was an advanced civilisation.Barry Hofstetter wrote: ↑May 8th, 2017, 10:03 amthis looks like an almost modern piece of furniture. Totally cool to know that drawers existed in ancient times.
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Maybe κιβωτός?
In any laguage learning situation were we are accountable for our errors, we continually struggle with self-defeatism - both in ourselves as learners and in our students. One of the symptoms of self-defeatism is the couching of expected failures into blindspots - the avoidance of saying things in a certain way or even saying them at all. Without meaning any criticism of a natural human self-defence mechanism, it seems that many of the reactions and comments I've read about using Koine Greek as a living language are in response to the enormity and unknown nature of the task. Winning the internal (belief that it can be done) is half the struggle in anything where we fight against our own success. In contradistinction to an adult learning experience, it is interesting to see the kid having no concept that Greek might be anything other than a language, as Chinese and English are. She (still) has the postive expectation that Greek means as much as anything else that anybody says around her. Simple things like μὴ ἅπτου τῆς ἀμίδος "Don't touch the potty", Ἀναχώρει! (Ἀναχωρεῖτε!) "Give me some room here!", (Ἔξελθε) ἵνα μὴ ἐξυπνίσῃς τὸν πάππον. "Don't wake up your grandfather. Get out.". or ἡ μάχαιρα οὔκ ἐστιν παίγνιον "Don't play with the knife!", Αἶρε ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐδάφους τὰ παίγνιά σου "Get your toys off the floor." produce the desired results, and whatever else is said is expected to hve a meaning too.RandallButh wrote: ↑May 9th, 2017, 5:00 am How have I managed all these years without a good word for drawer?
What verb could be used for opening and closing it?