Kennings: renaming the world
This article is intended as a follow-up to yesterday’s article entitled Sanskrit words...
Sanskrit words for animals: haikus of first impressions
Sanskrit has many words for animals and trees that do nothing else...
Avatar: the one who has descended
The word avatar is certainly, and especially since the advent of 3D...
Yeavering: how halls of kings rose from the dust
The great wooden hall was the hub of ancient Germanic...
Wolf and wolves and foot and feet
We all know that the plural of foot is not *foots but feet. This is, by...
The weird lottery of fate unravelled
According to Greek mythology the fate of each and every individual is determined...
To be ... or not?
It will have escaped no one, that Germanic languages, such as English...
The erosion of cases
Ink, as a tool for writing, has had a profound...
Stars: seeds of the gods
English star, German Stern, Italian and Latin stella, Greek αστηρ (astēr) and Hindi तारा (tārā), all...