The article aims to explore the relationship between Lucretius and Callimachus by analysing two passages from De rerum natura 6. In the first one (l. 716), Lucretius condemns an etymology supported ...by Callimachus (ἐτησίαι from αἰτέω) to oblivion, by suggesting the derivation of the same name, etesiae, from ἔτος/annus. In the second one (ll. 749‑55), he alludes to a passage from the Hecale through an Alexandrian footnote inspired by an expression used by Callimachus in his Fifth Hymn.
Als treballs que aportaren Vicent Pitarch ('Seduït pel País Valencià, amb compromís i esperança'), Joan Ferrer, Josep Ferrer i Joan Pujadas ('Els epistolaris de Joan Coromines amb Joan Fuster i ...Manuel Sanchis Guarner'), Joan Veny ('Sobre algunes interferències lèxiques en valencià'), Lluís Gimeno ('Sobre lèxic botànic i diccionaris històrics'), Brauli Montoya ('Etla, Noetla, Nompot i Vinalapó, quatre topònims valencians meridionals que s'han transformat modernament, en l'Onomasticon de Coromines') i Joan Anton Verge ('Toponímia del Baix Maestrat en l'Onomasticon Cataloniae'), ara s'afegeixen els de Joseph Gulsoy, Germà Colón, Emili Casanova, Vicent Garcia Perales, Maria Pilar Perea, Vicent-Josep Pérez i Navarro, i Maite Mollà.
In this paper I review the Greek evidence for a root Лаф- 'take' going back to PIE *labh- or *lembh- (: Ved. ra(m)bh-/la(m)bh-). To the evidence already adduced by previous researchers (λάφῡρα ...‘spoils’; ἀμφιλαφής ‘widespreading’; εἴληφα ‘I have taken’), I propose to add the verb λαφύσσω ‘devour’ and the divine epithet λαφύστιος ‘devourer’, which I derive from a lost agentive compound *labʰu-h1(e) d-(tā-) ‘greedy eater’. I furthermore propose that the etymologically obscure epithet Λάφριος, -ίᾱ is another derivative of the same root. Most of the deities designated by these epithets – from Zeus Laphystios to Artemis Laphria – appear to have been receivers of bloody (even human) sacrifice, or otherwise connected with violence and rapacity. Lastly, I discuss potential comparative evidence for a root *labʰ- or *lembʰ- from other IE branches.
Of all performers, clowns might be the most mundane, in that their work – attending the etymological roots of the mundane – firmly and fixedly is of the world. Earthy, coarse and material, rebounding ...from whatever slip, trip, stumble or fall, their ascents only ever return them to the surface, back to the world. But of what is that buoyancy made? How does a clown get back up? To account for that force, this paper follows what Shoshana Felman finds, via J. L. Austin, as 'triviality as a philosophy – as a method'. When Austin writes: 'To feel the firm ground of prejudice slipping away is exhilarating, but brings its revenges,' it is Austin's humour, Felman shows, keeping him afloat. Buoyancy, then, could be understood as a species of performative force. Given how Felman's reading has shaped performance theory, this paper pushes her term triviality into the mundane by citing the context of performance and taking a performer whose ostensible field is humour. This paper, then, considers a clown, Alex Tatarsky, and a series of workshop performances given in an autumn 2021 residency at The Kitchen in New York, which turned, specifically, around the performance of etymology and an ecological commitment to compost. Celebrating how organic matter breaks into dirt gives Tatarsky a vehicle to break the linguistic-symbolic itself into roots. Revelling in the visceral force of language's materiality – as sound, history and the means by which we meet and misunderstand one another – Tatarsky pulses through states of disintegration both individual and collective. In the performance of etymology, they offer the common derivation of clown as clod, as in dirt – what makes the ground. Fixing that signature, Tatarsky breaks down themselves, and in that, rebounds to show something of how the world holds together, and what can happen when it doesn't.
Christmas Tulloch, Alexander
English today,
12/2009, Letnik:
25, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
ABSTRACT Some seasonal etymologies. The origins of many of the words associated with Christmas are as fascinating as they are illuminating. But at this time of year those who celebrate Christmas ...throughout the world are usually too preoccupied with buying presents, preparing traditional fare, organising parties etc. to bother about the derivations of the words unwrapped along with the presents, only to be used for a couple of weeks before being put away again till next year. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
The article aims at analysing the Wawer microtoponyms that identify hills (e.g., Piaskowa Góra, Góra Lotników, Góry Macierowskie) and those that refer to traditional Polish oronymy (e.g., Giewont, ...Czarny Staw, Morskie Oko). In the text, I divide the studied names into categories and present their probable etymologies. The article also indicates with which cultural elements, persons and places the described microtoponyms are associated. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the discussed places and the stories associated with them have had a significant impact on the formation of local identity.
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