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Upcoming events

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  • Tue
    28
    Oct
    2025

    Duccio Guasti (Ghent University) - "Greek kēlōn "stallion": etymology and original meaning"

    11:00 amFaculteitszaal

    Abstract: 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."

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Past events

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  • Tue
    29
    Oct
    2019

    Leonid Kulikov: Gr. Κένταυρος and his (non-)Indo-European relatives: the Indo-Iranian myth of the primordial incest between twins (Yamī and Yama) and its origins

    1:00 pmCamelot room (Blandijnberg 2, 3rd floor)

    ΔiaLing-presentation by Dr. Leonid Kulikov (UGent, ΔiaLing): "Gr. Κένταυρος and his (non-)Indo-European relatives: the Indo-Iranian myth of the primordial incest between twins (Yamī and Yama) and its origins."

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