Name - Origin
Παξιμάδι.
Rusk, twice baked bread (Kypri 1979 [2002²], entry ποξομάτιν,το, 394) / dough preparation, baked until cripsy (Petrou-Poeitou 2013, entry Παξιμάδι-Ποξαμάτι, 109)
Xenophon P. Pharmakidis in his Glossary in the entry ποξαμάτινpoxamátin notes that some people call it paximátin. Plural poxamáthkia; a small poxamatin is pocamatoúin (pl. poxamatoúthkia). Also called kavkaliá (Kypri 1983 [2003²], entry ποξαμάτιν,το, 204).
The phrase "Θέλει tζιαι to ποξαμάτιν βρεμένον" (he wants the poxamatin soaked) was aboutf someone who was in prison and chose to be hanged, because he was bored of soaking his poxamatin (Petrou-Poeitou 2013, article Paximatis-Poxamatis, 109).
Additional information and bibliography
Pregnant women would bake poxamathkia, to treat those who would come to visit them after giving birth: "Before delivering, a woman would prepare poxamathkia so that after delivering, when visitors would bring her glytžistá, she would return the plate with poxamathkia in it. As soon as a baby was born, the priest who was performing agiasmon (blessing) was offered by the new mother a white thread with threaded poxamathkia'' (Mavrokordatos 2003, 320).
Yangoullis K. G. (2009), Θησαυρός Κυπριακής Διαλέκτου. Ερμηνευτικό, Ετυμολογικό, Φρασεολογικό και Ονοματολογικό Λεξικό της Μεσαιωνικής και Νεότερης Κυπριακής Διαλέκτου, Βιβλιοθήκη Κυπρίων Λαϊκών Ποιητών, 70, Theopress Publications, Nicosia.
Kypri Th. D. (ed.) (1979 [2002²]), Υλικά διά την σύνταξιν ιστορικού λεξικού της κυπριακής διαλέκτου, Μέρος Α΄, Γλωσσάριον Γεωργίου Λουκά, Publications of the Centre for Scientific Research, XLI, Nicosia.
Kypri Th. D. (ed.) (1989), Υλικά διά την σύνταξιν ιστορικού λεξικού της κυπριακής διαλέκτου, Μέρος Γ΄, Γλωσσάριον Ιωάννου Ερωτοκρίτου, Publications of the Centre for Scientific Research, XIV, Nicosia.
Mavrokordatos G. I. (2003), Δίκωμο: Το χθες και το σήμερα, Nicosia.
Petrou-Poeitou E. (2013), Από πού κρατάει η σκούφια τους. Λέξεις και ιστορίες από τον κόσμο της γεύσης, Epiphaniou Publications, Nicosia.
Savvas Polyviou, Tonia Ioakim, Argyro Xenophontos
