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Just a fun thought for the linguists and philologists out there: Does it 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 make sense for the term 'hapax legomenon' to have a plural?
#linguistics #language #philology #humour

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

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

**Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library**

“_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._”

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

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

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: √*s—d “sit, settle”
e-grade: *sed- > sit
o-grade: *sod- > sat
zero grade: *-sd-, in *ni-sd-o > nest
long e-grade: *se:d-i‑ > seat
long o-grade: *so:d-o- > soot

sometimes leading to differences between languages. Audio examples at
http://www.ancientsounds.net/ablaut.html

#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean

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.html

Always glad to receive corrections, requests for clarification etc.

#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean

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

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

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