Etymolist
Dienstag, 10. August 2021
Eastern Wardrobe
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The antique wardrobe shown below belongs to a friend. It is supposed to have been produced in Korea. The inscriptions on it look Chinese. Is...
Donnerstag, 7. September 2017
Hittite ḫumant- and Vedic ubhau
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I put a paper up for discussion on academia.edu . Abstract: A connection between Hittite ḫumant- “all, each, entire” and Vedic ubhau “both”...
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Sonntag, 7. Mai 2017
English is the new Latin
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Photograph taken in a public park in Tehran in March 2017: The bird's name is given in three versions - Farsi Tuti touġdār , Scie...
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Montag, 6. Juni 2016
Arabic the wrong way around
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Doing some housekeeping on my notebook, I found this picture I took in a Warsaw Hotel in Summer 2015. As you can see, it's a multiling...
Samstag, 7. Mai 2016
"Alles Kokolores"
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(Reposting of my Goodreads Review .) "Alles Kokolores" is a nice little collection of etymologies and word histories of words tha...
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Montag, 4. Januar 2016
Note on Liberman's Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology
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Shortly before the New Year I finished reading Anatoly Liberman's " An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology ". This is a...
Sonntag, 2. November 2014
Gaulish Stress
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This is a re-posting of a comment on Languagehat's blog . In a discussion that somehow moved from a discussion of register differences i...
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