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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• 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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