Vindauga Fenestra

Journal Article (2019)
Author(s)

S. De Vocht (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / A)

Van Hee Marie-José

Research Group
Teachers of Practice / A
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Publication Year
2019
Language
English
Research Group
Teachers of Practice / A
Issue number
2
Volume number
4

Abstract

The word ‘window’, etymologically rooted in the Old Norse vindauga, was for early Germanic peoples just an unglazed hole in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through. Most Germanic languages later adopted a version of the Latin fenestra, to describe a glazed version of the ‘wind eye’.....

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