Etymolist

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...

I put a paper up for discussion on academia.edu . Abstract: A connection between Hittite ḫumant- “all, each, entire” and Vedic ubhau “both”...

Photograph taken in a public park in Tehran in March 2017: The bird's name is given in three versions - Farsi Tuti touġdār , Scie...

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...

(Reposting of my Goodreads Review .) "Alles Kokolores" is a nice little collection of etymologies and word histories of words tha...

Shortly before the New Year I finished reading Anatoly Liberman's " An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology ". This is a...

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...