Karyes, Ioannina
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Karyes | |
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  Karyes | |
| Coordinates: 39°43′58″N 20°55′57″E / 39.73278°N 20.93250°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Epirus |
| Regional unit | Ioannina |
| Municipality | Zagori |
| Municipal unit | East Zagori |
| Elevation | 638 m (2,093 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Karyes (Greek: Καρυές, before 1927: Μογγλιούς, Monglious)[1][2] is a settlement in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece.
In the late 19th century, the scholar Ioannis Lambridis rendered the placename as Monglioi and described it as a 'cloudy place'.[3] The toponym is a proper noun derived from the patronymic or andronymic Moungouliou.[4] It originated from the Greek feminine prepositional phrase sts muŋgl'us (stis Moungoulious), which was interpreted as the masculine plural accusative stous Moungoulious, eventually becoming the nominative form Monglioi.[4]
The name Moungouliou is formed from the surname Moungoulis and the suffix -ou.[4] This surname is either derived from Moungos and the diminutive suffix -oulis, or from Megoulis, stemming from the Albanian word mjegull/ë, -a meaning 'fog', where 'e' shifted to u' due to labialisation caused by the preceding m sound.[4]