#philology β Public Fediverse posts
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Just a fun thought for the linguists and philologists out there: Does it π³π¦π’πππΊ make sense for the term 'hapax legomenon' to have a plural?
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Archaeoethnologica: Studies in the Atharvaveda - Book / Estudos sob o Atharvaveda - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/11/estudos-sob-o-atharvaveda-livro.html
#Indology #indoeuropeanstudies #India #indiantexts #sanskrit #vedas #vedic #Asia #linguistic #philology #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Studies in the Atharvaveda - Book / Estudos sob o Atharvaveda - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/11/estudos-sob-o-atharvaveda-livro.html
#Indology #indoeuropeanstudies #India #indiantexts #sanskrit #vedas #vedic #Asia #linguistic #philology #books #openaccess
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**Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library**
β_The results reveal that most manuscripts contain fewer than 20 excerpts, but a small number show much higher levels of excerpting, highlighting the immense intellectual and literary activities implicated in their production._β
Maeir N (2025) Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0320265. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320265.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Culture #Charts #Religion #Taxonomy #Christianity #Analysis #Philology #Syriac #Academia
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Funny research quandary today: I wanted to make the case that a certain medieval author used a specific word in a specific passage in order to call back to a thematically similar gospel passage.
Turns out the Vulgate uses the word, but almost every single author contemporary with mine DROPS THE SPECIFIC WORD I'M LOOKING FOR when quoting the gospel passage.
#amwriting #amwritinghistory #humanities #research @medievodons #medievodons @theology #Latin #lateantiquity #biblicalstudies #philology
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
Central to the Proto-Indo-European vowel system is the pattern of vowel changes named "ablaut" by 19th c. German-speaking linguists, e.g.:
root: β*sβd βsit, settleβ
e-grade: *sed- > sit
o-grade: *sod- > sat
zero grade: *-sd-, in *ni-sd-o > nest
long e-grade: *se:d-iβ > seat
long o-grade: *so:d-o- > sootsometimes leading to differences between languages. Audio examples at
http://www.ancientsounds.net/ablaut.html#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
How do we "know" (infer) the pronunciation of words in Proto-Indo-European? The next instalment of my sprawling web pages on this question focusses on fricatives and frictionless continants (basically, r and l):
https://www.ancientsounds.net/PIEconsonants3.htmlAlways glad to receive corrections, requests for clarification etc.
#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
How do we "know" (infer) the pronunciation of words in Proto-Indo-European? My next web page about this question, for the phonetics and philology nerds, focusses on the places of articulation of stops, and the nasals: https://www.ancientsounds.net/PIEconsonants2.html
Always glad to receive corrections, requests for clarification etc.
#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
How do we "know" (infer) the pronunciation of words in Proto-Indo-European? My webpages on this question are starting to sprawl out of control, and unlike earlier posts on Mastodon they are unashamedly pretty technical. Here's the next instalment, for the phonetics nerds out there: https://www.ancientsounds.net/PIEconsonants.html
Always glad to receive corrections, requests for clarification etc.
#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean
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New publication from your Philological Essayist! First longer translation from Syriac. Second part of the first sermon of the Book of Steps will be translated in a next publication on the same Substack channel! #Syriac #Philology #Christianity #Translation https://open.substack.com/pub/philologicaltryouts/p/step-by-step-through-the-book-of?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=kir9a