Levant · Etymology
From Moriah to the Morel
Following the MOR root through five thousand years — the sacred mountain in three traditions, the Amorites and Hammurabi, Greek morphē, and the Egyptian root for love.
Read →Where words come from, and what their travel records about the people who carried them.
Following the MOR root through five thousand years — the sacred mountain in three traditions, the Amorites and Hammurabi, Greek morphē, and the Egyptian root for love.
Read →Achilles is a man of the sea in every detail but the name — the buried Bronze Age m-r sea-meaning under the standard “ant-people” etymology of the Myrmidons.
Read →Border families and the Britons returning to their land — the deep roots of the Steward and Stewart name across the Anglo-Scottish frontier.
Read →Egypt’s primeval mound of creation, the capstone of every pyramid, and the phoenix that rose from it all carry one root — wbn, “to rise, to shine.” The Semitic word for “son,” ben, only sounds like it. The facts of both, the look-alikes the sound throws off across unrelated languages — Chinese, Sanskrit, even Tibetan Bön — and one open question, does anything older connect them, left for the reader to weigh.
Read →A 1778 Northumbrian ballad — a princess turned into a dragon at Bamburgh, rescued by her brother — and the deep Brittonic gwyn root behind the names.
Read →A Norwegian sea-coast earl named Harald Fairhair — then his six sons scattered. One died, one failed, and four founded things that lasted: the earldom of Orkney, an Iceland bloodline that runs to a saint, the home seat, and the duchy of Normandy that took England. Rognvald the Wise and his sons, one by one.
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