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...
Wolf and wolves and foot and feet
We all know that the plural of foot is not *foots but feet. This is, by...
To be ... or not?
It will have escaped no one, that Germanic languages, such as English...
Father Sky in ancient Greek and Sanskrit
In the late stone age, about seven or eight millennia ago, the...
Words for king in Sanskrit, Greek and Old English
The common word for king is राजा (rājā) in Sanskrit, βασιλευς (basileus)...
Immortals and their ambrosia
In Greek literature the gods are known as the ἄμβροτοι...