Etymological

Etymological detour ahead, please skip if it bores you: These types of negotiations used to take place in what was originally called "smoke-filled back rooms" -- but of course, the rooms are now smoke-free.

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Obama's Fourteenth Option Chris Weigant 2011

Etymological detour ahead, please skip if it bores you: These types of negotiations used to take place in what was originally called "smoke-filled back rooms" -- but of course, the rooms are now smoke-free.

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Obama's Fourteenth Option Chris Weigant 2011

I notice that both Beekes and the Hittite Etymological Dictionary that you linked to consider αὐλός to be an Indo-European formation: either *h₂eu-lo- or *h₂oul-i-.

A Mediterranean flute wanderword 2010

Note easterly Hurrian kuwahi too although seeking an origin of this word in Eastern Turkey seems most unlikely despite what Puhvel suggests (see Puhvel, Hittite Etymological Dictionary: Words beginning with K (1997), p.257).

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I should also add that Puhvel offers a different translation for Hittite auli-, that is, 'spleen' (read Puhvel's Hittite Etymological Dictionary (1984), p.231).

A Mediterranean flute wanderword 2010

Etymological analysis of these terms yields the following: Septentrio represents the seven stars of the constellation of the Great Bear (Ursa Major) and is considered "north."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Note easterly Hurrian kuwahi too although seeking an origin of this word in Eastern Turkey seems most unlikely despite what Puhvel suggests (see Puhvel, Hittite Etymological Dictionary: Words beginning with K (1997), p.257).

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Servius' passage is acknowledged in Partridge, Origins: An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1977), p.2809 (see link).

An etymology for 'Rome' 2010

Note 52: Etymological invention was basic to a humanist education.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Look at Puhvel, Hittite Etymological Dictionary: Words beginning with K 1997, p.182, under kinirtalla-, kinartalla-.

The kithara 2010