by David Tollen | Mar 30, 2023 | Roman Empire, Ancient History, Teacher-Specific, The Early Modern Age, Geography, Linguistics & Philology
I’m pleased to announce something unusual and fun. I’ve written a short booklet on history, and you can get a copy right here — for free. The booklet includes original illustrations by a great artist named Neerajana Deb, as well as artistic maps. I...
by David Tollen | Jan 9, 2015 | Classical Civilization, Linguistics & Philology
German, English, Swedish, and the other Germanic languages belong to the Indo-European family, but they’re odd members. They and Proto-Germanic, their common grandparent, have a lot of vocabulary and grammar utterly unlike other Indo-European languages. Rather,...
by David Tollen | Sep 3, 2011 | The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Linguistics & Philology
The English word “garden” sounds like the Serbian and Russian suffixes grade, grad, and gorod, all of which mean “town.” You see them in city names like Belgrade, Leningrad, and Novgorod. The word “town,” on the other hand, sounds...
