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Lingam (idiots) from लिङ्गं : Liṅgaṃ (sanskrit)
Author's warning: All Wikipedia articles on Hinduism are breathless, poorly sourced, and should be considered deeply, deeply suspect.
Siva (Shiva, Puru Rupa, Neelsikandin, Mahadeva, etc) is the principle god in the Shaivist branch of Hinduism and the god most closely associated with linga (properly sivalinga when referencing objects of Siva- ( Read more... ) -
Fasz (hungarian)
Though located in Central Europe and bordered on all sides by Indo-European derived languages, Hungarian is (most likely) a Finno-Ugric language most closely related to Finnish and Estonian. Hungarian has many Turkic and Indo-european words littering the their lexicon, however, which helps complicate efforts to pin down the ancestral proto-language ( Read more... ) -
PRSR An Introduction
Penis Root Special Report
An Introduction
PwR is about to start an exciting new series called the Penis Root Special Reports. These reports will attempt to trace the etymologies of various words for penis from their source in pre-history up through the present. Before we begin, a short introduction might prove useful.
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Cock (english)
The word cock, equating male humans and fowl, has been with English for a very long time, although the meaning has altered somewhat over the years. From the Online Etymology Dictionary we learn that cocc has been around since Old English, and meant "one who struts like a rooster," in reference to "a pert boy, used of scullions, apprentices, ( Read more... ) -
Ortabacak (turkish)
Anatolia is the westernmost extension of the asian continent, and an area awash in history. Home to the ancient cities of Troy, Halicarnassus and Heraclea; site of world-changing battles like Granicus, Issus and Ipsus; Anatolia has been part of some of the most important civilizations in world history: Rome, Persia, the Achaemenids and the ( Read more... ) -
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Penis-word Resource Dong (word) Donor Drive
Hey folks, do you know of a word for penis in some foreign sounding language? Do you know the etymology of a penis-word in our own language? Do you have a good penis joke or anecdote just begging to be shared with the world at large ( Read more... ) -
Usuk (inuktitut)
The concept of cool must be pervasively applied to any discussion of the Inuit, a group of closely related indigenous peoples who make their homes north of the tree-line in North America and Greenland. Obviously "cool" is a bit of an understatement regarding an environment nearly devoid of vegetation and covered in a a layer of permanent ice, but ( Read more... ) -
屌 : Diǎo (mandarin chinese)
Being godless, communist heathen, the Chinese have largely dispensed with religiously based insults in favor of the much more awesome sex-and-poo fare preferred by all true connoisseurs of language. Although unrelated to the topic of interest, the authors' personal favorite mandarin insult is "èrbī" (二屄), literally "double vagina." Double vagina! ( Read more... ) -
Chengelele (swahili)
Although Swahili (properly Kiswahili) is the most widely-spoken native language in sub-sahran Africa, it has only about 5 million native speakers (and an additional 50 million as a second language). This is largely due to the enormous number of languages indigenous to the continent (four major families, comprising over a thousand distinct languages ( Read more... ) -
Batuta (tagalog)
Tagalog, also known as Filipino, is the most widely used of the almost two hundred languages spoken in the 7,107 island Philippine archipelago. It is an austronesian language and, as such, is related to Malay, Hawaiian, and Maori.
Over three centuries of spanish colonial rule have added a number of words to the Tagalog arsenal, one such being ( Read more... )