Events

• 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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• 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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