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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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  • Thu
    19
    Jan
    2017

    Proto-Indo-European alignment: reasons for a change

    3:30 pmGrote Vergaderzaal (Blandijn, 3de verdieping)

    ΔiaLing presentation by dr. Roland Pooth (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History): "Proto-Indo-European alignment: reasons for a change". 

    Download the abstract here.

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