tonogenesis
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egyptian-coptic and semitic linguistics
old japanese be like “woman”
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
old japanese be like “woman”
just got nasal ʿayin jumpscared by a 17th century dictionary of Vietnamese
April 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
just got nasal ʿayin jumpscared by a 17th century dictionary of Vietnamese
Anyone know what’s up with with the aleph in Phoenician pʾl ‘(Egyptian) beans’ in KAI 51 Vs. 4? No parallel in the Semitic cognates (Heb. פּוֹל, Aram. פּוֹלָא, Ar. فُول, Ge. ፉል, etc.), but it does look suspiciously like Bohairic ⲫⲉⲗ ‘bean’, which would go back to Proto-Coptic *pʰɛʔl.
February 27, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Anyone know what’s up with with the aleph in Phoenician pʾl ‘(Egyptian) beans’ in KAI 51 Vs. 4? No parallel in the Semitic cognates (Heb. פּוֹל, Aram. פּוֹלָא, Ar. فُول, Ge. ፉል, etc.), but it does look suspiciously like Bohairic ⲫⲉⲗ ‘bean’, which would go back to Proto-Coptic *pʰɛʔl.
I was having trouble reconciling the Tiberian form with Ugaritic a͗byn, but apparently *a > ɛ is regular in this position. Thanks Garr! (from “The Seghol and Segholation in Hebrew”)
February 26, 2024 at 10:07 PM
I was having trouble reconciling the Tiberian form with Ugaritic a͗byn, but apparently *a > ɛ is regular in this position. Thanks Garr! (from “The Seghol and Segholation in Hebrew”)
was finally able to complete this etymology tree
February 26, 2024 at 10:06 PM
was finally able to complete this etymology tree