Thursday, 3 February 2011

Project Z- towers, Z-torņi.


Tower (in Latvian - tornis) in Old English was called "torr", meaning high structure - from Latin turris.
Possibly linked to Etruscan verb turan "to rule" and later tyrant (in Latvian - tirāns).

In other words - a tyrannical structure ruling over Riga skyline.

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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous3 February 2011 at 17:28

    FYI, Latvian "tornis" is borrowed from Germanic languages (Swedish "torn", modern German "turm"), ulimately from Latin (turris) and Greek (tyrsis). The relations with "tyrant" is possible, but rather distant.

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  2. yournotalone3 February 2011 at 18:56

    Thanks:)
    This is what I said (origin is latin turris) and also pointed out linkage from latin to english lng.

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  3. Danija4 February 2011 at 16:00

    Danish: Tårn (pron.: torn)

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