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Fri05Mar20213:00 pmMS-Teams
Koen Bostoen (UGent): Epidemic-driven population collapse in Congolese rainforest 1600-1400 years ago urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion
Show contentKoen Bostoen (UGent): “Epidemic-driven population collapse in Congolese rainforest 1600-1400 years ago urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion”
Abstract: here
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Tue28Oct202511:00 amFaculteitszaal
Duccio Guasti (Ghent University) - "Greek kēlōn "stallion": etymology and original meaning"
Show contentAbstract: In this paper, after rejecting all proposed etymologies, I reconstruct the Greek κήλων, a word that can refer both to stallion donkeys and to hypersexual men, as a formation in-ων from κήλη "hernia, swelling, tumor."