Events

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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  • Fri
    19
    May
    2017

    New evidence for the common origin of the Japanese and Korean languages

    11:00 amGrote Vergaderzaal (Blandijn, 3de verdieping)

    Prof. Dr. Alexander Francis-Ratte (Furman University): "New evidence for the common origin of the Japanese and Korean languages”

    Download the abstract here.

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