Kimatyza is the phonetic/English written version of κύμτεζα. A feminization of the literary Greek κύμτεζιον, which is listed in the Tuft's University Perseus project and A Greek-English Lexicon by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott as to be agitated by the waves, Arist.HA622a18; toss about like waves, en têi koiliai k. ta sitia Gal.19.717 ; of the pulse, Id.8.482, 9.180.
I spent a portion of my early childhood living on Crete. I learned to read and write Greek at age four, a bit before I began writing in English. So when it came time to find an AOL user name one day and EVERYTHING was taken, it was natural to fall back on Greek words. This is a random spelling of a word I love. My pronunciation of it is now completely bastardized. (The actual pronunciation just doesn't roll off the English/American tongue, and doesn't translate exactly to the spelling I used.)
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Date: 2008-12-31 11:39 pm (UTC)κύμτεζιον, which is listed in the Tuft's University Perseus project and A Greek-English Lexicon by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott as to be agitated by the waves, Arist.HA622a18; toss about like waves, en têi koiliai k. ta sitia Gal.19.717 ; of the pulse, Id.8.482, 9.180.
I spent a portion of my early childhood living on Crete. I learned to read and write Greek at age four, a bit before I began writing in English. So when it came time to find an AOL user name one day and EVERYTHING was taken, it was natural to fall back on Greek words. This is a random spelling of a word I love. My pronunciation of it is now completely bastardized. (The actual pronunciation just doesn't roll off the English/American tongue, and doesn't translate exactly to the spelling I used.)
There you go.