Today, there was a real cinematic treat on the Space Channel called Children of Men. The film stars the brooding Clive Owen together with a small but strong role by Michael Caine, acted brilliantly as always. Although Julianne Moore (as Julian) is listed on covers as a selling point, I think ..
I've been meaning to get to work on this for some time but I've finally slapped together a map labelled with the names of Etruscan cities as the Etruscan themselves would have called them based on what I have in my database. All the names have been standardized to Old Etruscan phonotactics, so I ..
"Nikolayev and Starostin 1994 offer many putative cognate sets and reconstructions for Nakh-Daghestanian and its branches, as part of a reconstruction of a putative North Caucasian comprising Northwest Caucasian and Nakh-Daghestanian. These two families have not in fact been shown to be related. ..
I've read many people writing of 'prefixes' in Minoan but I frown on these notions. Yes, I know, I'm a party-pooper but I don't like things that make no sense. Knowing nothing else about this undeciphered language (and believe me, no one really knows much on this language unfortunately), it ..
In prior posts, I've been babbling about all these meanings applied to *mar-, *mer- or *smer- by Indo-Europeanists and how skeptical I am of one particular set of meanings in this clumsy word pile, that revolving around the notions of 'shimmer' and 'shine'. I recently found an instructive ..