words
The word “romance” has nothing to do with love. Not originally.
It comes from Latin romanice, meaning ‘in the Roman manner.’ In medieval France, writing romanice meant writing in the language people actually spoke (Old French), as opposed to Latin.
Latin romanice became Old French romanz:... See more
Colin Gorriesubstack.com
Hookland holds the dialect word of holscad – a shadow cast by something that is patently not there, a shadow of something which was once there, but now no longer exists.
Hooklandsubstack.com
Philosophical Words from Around the World:
Chiaroscuro, Italian.
(With thanks to Matt Haig, who introduced me to this term during a conversation for an upcoming newsletter.)
Jonny Thomsonsubstack.com
Let us consider some terms. “Civilization” is a difficult word to define although the presence of cities seems etymologically necessary (consider Latin, civitas, “citizen; citizens united; a city”). J. M. Roberts writes: “Some have said that a civilized society is different from an uncivilized society because it has a certain attribute—writing,
... See moreGeorge R. Elder • The Snake and the Rope: A Jungian View of Hinduism
The word yantra in Sanskrit literally means “a support or instrument.” A yantra is “a mystic diagram used as a symbol of the Divine as well as of its powers and aspects.”
Daniel Odier • Tantric Kali: Secret Practices and Rituals
Learning any language can entail the development of a different ‘way of seeing’ or quality of perception that was not expressed (and is as such ‘unknown’) within our own linguistic context. This ubiquitous truth of language learning – that ‘the limits of our language are the limits of our world’ – becomes even more demonstrably true when studying a... See more