Thanks, Wolfgang. I agree that a literate native speaker of pretty much any major European language (as well as most of the minor ones and many non-European ones) shouldn't have too much difficulty guessing what the topic of "Himnoj kaj Himnologio" is. On the other hand, two components of the title are not found in English words to my knowledge: the final "-j" (plural marker, like English -s) in Himnoj, and the word "kaj" (and). Both of these are of Greek provenance. The -j corresponds to the final -i in "hoi polloi" but other than that I can't think off the top of my head of another English word containing it, and "kaj" strikes me as wholly unenglish.

Haruo
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