Ancient Greek doȗle (voc.) 'slave' through time and space

Language Log 2025-10-24

Summary:

Following upon our enthusiastic, productive discussions on the main East Asian word for "slave" (奴隷 J. ドレイ M. núlì) a few weeks ago and Chau Wu's drawing of parallels with the corresponding Greek word for a person of that status several days after that, I've become deeply interested in Greek δούλος ("slave").  (See the first three […]

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Victor Mair

Date tagged:

10/24/2025, 11:31

Date published:

10/24/2025, 08:53