Vindauga Fenestra

Journal article (2019)

Authors

S. De Vocht Teachers of Practice / A - Architecture and the Built Environment
Research Group
Teachers of Practice / A (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Architecture

Research Group

Teachers of Practice / A

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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