| A | B |
|---|
| bishop | episkopos - overseer (cf. episcopal) |
| blame | blasphemein - to blaspheme |
| chair | kathedra -, seat |
| desk | diskos - tray, collection plate, disc, disk, discus |
| devil | diabolos - slanderer (cf. diabolic) |
| glamor | grammatike (techne) - (art) of letters |
| palsy | paralysis - paralysis, palsy, laxity |
| parole | parabole - comparison, parable |
| priest | presbyteros (comparative of presbys - old man) - an elder, priest (cf. presbyterian) |
| story | istoria (Latin, historia) - history, inquiry |
| alms | eleemosyne, from eleemon - charitable, merciful; from eleos - mercy, pity, charity |
| box | pyxis - little box, from pyxos - box-tree |
| chimney | kaminos - kiln, furnace |
| church | kyriakon - of the Lord; from kyrios - master, lord; from kyros - power |
| elixir | xerion - a powder for drying wounds; from xeros - dry |
| pew | podion (diminutive of POD-, foot) - little foot, base, pedestal |
| prow | prora, proira - prow |
| almond | amygdalos - almond tree |
| cherry | kerasos - cherry tree; kerasion - cherry |
| date | daktylos - finger, date |
| fancy | phantasia - appearance, imagination; from phainein - to show |
| frantic | phrenitikos - frantic, furious, maniac; phrenitis - inflammation of the brain; phren - mind, brain, reason |
| guitar | kithara - cithara or lyre |
| lantern | lampter - lamp; from lampein - to shine |
| licorice | glykyrrhiza, glykorriza from glykys (sweet; cf. glucose) + rhiza, riza (root; cf. radish) |
| place | plateia (hodos) - a broad (way or street); from platys - wide, broad, large (cf. platypus) |
| surgeon | cheirourgos - surgeon; from cheir (hand) + ergon (work) |
| truck | trochos - wheel; from trechein - to run |
