Hello again,
I followed quite a few pages of the thread about Greece, thank you, it is very interesting!
I would like to ask you about some other toponyms (of villages not that far away from ours). Somebody mentions them as Slavic (and I believe he must be right) but except for about 2 of them, there is no info on the internet. Since there is somebody that doubts their Slavic origin :-), I would like to ask you guys just to be sure.
Kosovista (this one I confirmed as "Slavic")
Koukoulitsa?
Gretsista (this too I have confirmed)
Lepiana (from lep??)
Schoretsena/Schoretsena (I put "CH" instead of the Serbian "h" or "х")
Thank you!
Kosovista is probably from the term for a blackbird, "кос". It has the same root as Kosovo.
Koukoulitsa is maybe from the Greek term for doll, "koukla"? That term is present in the Bulgarian language also, as a loanword from Greek with the same meaning, and it's often used when naming certain mountain peaks or hilltops. I don't know why it is used in that way.
Although, maybe it doesn't come from that word at all, but it sure has a recognizable Slavic ending (-itsa).
Gretsista also has a Slavic ending, but I have no idea what the first part would mean (Gretsi), maybe Greeks? So it would then mean "the Greek place" or "the place of Greeks", but I'm not sure if that's the right etymology.
Lepiana and
Schoretsena are really an enigma for me, and I don't think that Lepiana has anything to do with "леп", which can mean "beautiful" or "daub" (as in "wattle and daub", construction technique for building simple houses), depending on context. I think that these last two terms are not Slavic in origin.