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June 17, 2015

Kennings: renaming the world

This article is intended as a follow-up to yesterday’s article entitled Sanskrit words...

June 16, 2015

Sanskrit words for animals: haikus of first impressions

    Sanskrit has many words for animals and trees that do nothing else...

June 15, 2015

Avatar: the one who has descended

    The word avatar is certainly, and especially since the advent of 3D...

June 14, 2015

Yeavering: how halls of kings rose from the dust

    The great wooden hall was the hub of ancient Germanic...

June 12, 2015

Wolf and wolves and foot and feet

  We all know that the plural of foot is not *foots but feet. This is, by...

Hands of Fate
June 11, 2015

The weird lottery of fate unravelled

  According to Greek mythology the fate of each and every individual is determined...

June 10, 2015

To be ... or not?

It will have escaped no one, that Germanic languages, such as English...

June 9, 2015

The erosion of cases

    Ink, as a tool for writing, has had a profound...

June 8, 2015

Stars: seeds of the gods

  English star, German Stern, Italian and Latin stella, Greek αστηρ (astēr) and Hindi तारा (tārā), all...