Words can travel through space, east-west, from ancient times to modern, from language to language. One of those tripping words in velvet. Before reaching Great …
Clothing
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greek
Roots
Carrot
Weather
Heat Cold
Time
Day Tomorrow Days of the week Monday Friday The fifth day For most languages represented in the map, the first day of the week is …
Cardinal
North / South West / East South
Nothing
A map of the word nothing in several different languages and its etymology
Herbs
Basil, the king This etymology map is about the names of one culinary herb, basil. It comes from βασιλικόν φυτόν (basilikón phutón) “royal (plant)” in Ancient Greek. The …
Nuts
Hazelnut Walnut Byzantines knew them as “royal nut”. For Germanic speakers is a “Welsh nut” because it came from Italy through France. We are just …
El Atlas
Maps about the diversity of the Spanish language vocabulary
Wikipedia
Wikipedia language codes are the letters at the beginning of the address for each language version. They are not the same as Internet top-level domains, …