Adam Bremer-McCollum
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Adam Bremer-McCollum
@acbm.bsky.social
Aramaics, Coptic, Gəʕəz, Arabic, Iran. langs, Turk. langs, Old Georgian, Old Armenian 🎸🌱🍄☕️
Research Assoc., CSWR/HDS
Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) https://tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong https://tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
The ezafet particle in Middle Persian is /ī/ (or /īg/), like /-e/ in later Persian, but in Parthian it's the interrogative/relative /čē/ that serves the purpose, e.g. /mād čē dēwān/ "mother of demons".
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It's just the number "one"
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Yes, I took /wāyōg/ as in apposition to /mard/ (≈ "there was a person, a hunter"), with /wāyōg/ as the antecedent of /kē/ (not /mard/ strictly speaking)
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
No, I don't really have any ideas as to the origin, just that given the geographically limited attestation it seems most likely that the direction was Coptic > Egyptian Arabic, and that a Semitic origin seems unlikely, since, as you say, there's no obvious occurrence beyond the Eg. Arabic word.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Yes to all that! 😎
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
And with a few more photos here
Celebrating The Pearlsong Through Scholarship and Song | Center for the Study of World Religions
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November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Obviously, that should be Acta Pauli
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Cf. Egyptian Arabic /hallūs/ "cobwebs" (Badawi & Hinds 910b, recognized as Coptic), but maybe also the spider itself, too (cf. Vycichl 297b). As usual, Černý assumes it's a Semitic lw in Coptic, but it's probably the other way.
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"And angles ministered ill"
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This week I read an Old Uyghur text with the word /(y)ıš/ "mountain forest, mountain meadow" (Bergwald, Bergalm), which looks like it would fit here.
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM