The story
Greek keeps the word in the plural as often as not: eimai sta kefia mou, I am in my kefi, said when an evening has lifted off the ground. It cannot be ordered up, only joined. English offers cheer, which tends to sit down earlier.
kefi
κέφιKEH-fee[ˈcefi]
Pronunciation: Sarri.greek · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commonsthe high spirits that make a night take off — the will and the gusto to enjoy it
Closest in English: cheer, mirth, gusto. None of them covers it.
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How it went in the game
Played by 68 people.
Two in five placed it in Greek straight away; most of the others went for Turkish.
The feeling cost the most points.
Of those who bet on the translation, one in ten got it exactly.
Harder than most words so far.
The four rounds
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- Which language is it from?Greek
- Which feeling does it carry?Loud, warm and lifted
- Where would you hear it?A long table, music, midnight
- What does it mean?The spark that makes a night take off