Health and illness in Prehistoric Europe: Linguistic evidence of beliefs in preventive care, causes and treatments

 To stay sound and healthy is obviously one of man’s timeless concerns. Most early societies seem to have believed that diseases could have both natural and supernatural causes. Blame was often heaped upon evil spirits that had entered into the Continue reading Health and illness in Prehistoric Europe: Linguistic evidence of beliefs in preventive care, causes and treatments

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In my dissertation ‘The Proto-Germanic n-stems’, I have presented evidence suggesting that a number of Germanic n-stems retained the root ablaut of the original PIE paradigm. In most cases, this paradigmatic alternation usually is not directly attested, but must nevertheless be reconstructed on Continue reading Sø kom der ein hjasi høppande forbi…