N. Dash
Opening Saturday 6th May 2017
12:00pm to 5:00pm

from 9th May to 14th July 2017

"The language [Arabic] is wonderful for Wanderwort*...

One morning in class, [he] taught the word for “mud brick.” In ancient hieroglyphs it was djebet, which became tobe in Coptic, and then the Arabs, adding a definite article, made it al-tuba, which was brought to Spain as adobar, and then to the American Southwest, where this heavy thing, having been lugged across four millennia and seven thousand miles, finally landed as “adobe.”"

Peter Hessler’s Letter from Cairo in The New Yorker April 17, 2017

*Wanderwort
Etymology - borrowed from German Wanderwort, from Wander (“wandering) + Wort (“word”)
Noun - A loanword that has spread to many different languages

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N. Dash
Inaugurazione sabato 6 maggio 2017
dalle 12:00 alle 17:00

dal 9 maggio al 14 luglio 2017

"La lingua araba è meravigliosa per Wanderwort*...

Una mattina in classe, rifletté sulla parola per "mud brick". Nel geroglifico antico era djebet diventando poi tobe in copto, in seguito gli arabi aggiunsero l'articolo determinativo trasformandolo in al-tuba, mentre in Spagna arrivò come adobar, e più tardi, nel sud-ovest americano, dove questa cosa pesante viaggiò per 4 millenni e 7000 miglia, finalmente divenne ‘adobe’.

Peter Hessler, “Letter from Cairo” al The New Yorker, 17 aprile 2017

*Wanderwort
Etimologia - discende dal tedesco, da Wander (vagare) + Wort (parola)
Nome - prestito linguistico diffuso in molte lingue differenti