Etymolist

NIL 2-4 treats the PIE Etymon *b h ah 2 g-ó-  "beech". They mention that some scholars reconstruct long /a:/ and some (not always ...

This is a follow-up on my  thoughts on PIE *b h ag . I’ve come across an article by Hrach Martirosyan (“The place of Armenian in the Indo...

In my haul of presents this year there was a copy of NIL , so I embarked on reading it root-by-root. The first one is *b h ag (NIL 1-2), ...

Over at Language Log, Geoffrey Pullum observes how English is currrently the world's lingua franca (obviously correct) and on how Chine...

Maybe I ought to have added a few exclamation marks and used a bigger font. Maybe I ought to have added a few titillating pics. After, all, ...

As someone interested both in languages and in tea, I liked the feature about the origin of the designation "Earl Grey Tea" in thi...

In the past few months, I've seen several mentions of Ilija Časule’s theory that Burushaski is related to Indo-European. See Memiwayanz...