The animals of the Proto-Indo-Europeans
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“Of beasts and men. The animals of the Proto-Indo-Europeans” was a research project in Indo-European linguistics. 🇪🇺
Hi world, this is "Of #beasts and #men. The #animals of the #ProtoIndoEuropeans", a #research #project that receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the #MarieSkłodowskaCurie grant agreement No. H2020-MSCA-IF-2018-835954.
Was the Danish language invented by Big Language History to sell more sound change? That’s very hard to know. But now you can see for yourself¹ in my ⭐️⭐️⭐️ new book ⭐️⭐️⭐️: Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen [Danish from the present to the Stone Age] upress.dk/vare/dansk-fra…
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That sounds like a very reaspoonable etymology! 🐰🥄🥄
I just had an etymological idea for W ysgyfarn, Corn. skovarn, Bret. skouarn "ear" (and implicitly W ysgyfarnog "hare"). The PS reco seems to be *skub-arno- or *skub-erno-, where *-erno/-arno- clearly is a suffix. This leaves us with a nominal root *skubo-. @PIE_Animals /1
Morgen, tijdens de Week van het Oude Schrift, geef ik samen met Willemijn Waal een lezing in het @RM_Oudheden over het Kalašma en het Kaška, twee nieuw ontdekte spijkerschrifttalen uit het oude Anatolië. Aanmelden kan nog! rmo.nl/uw-bezoek/acti…
Dydh da! An all-new episode of the language-loving podcast is up and it's a return to the Celtic languages – this time, it's Cornish. This was the choice of my guest, Daniel Prohaska, opera singer and Kernewek-xpert. Acast:shows.acast.com/a-language-i-l… Spotify:open.spotify.com/episode/7fEnWP…
Treated myself to a writing this month's post on two of the languages dearest to my heart: Latin and Czech. Specifically, it's all about the earliest Latin words to enter the Czexicon – words also familiar to English speakers, but obscured by time. dannybate.com/2024/08/29/ver…
In my talk, I spoke about @EarlyIrishMU's Thurneysen Fan-Club. These guys (@Bernhard_Baver Alderik Blom) are living the dream: the Rudolf Thurneysen Fan-Haircut
Finally, more about the hedgehog in this thread by @PIE_Animals from 4 years ago: x.com/PIE_Animals/st…
There is no reconstructible etymon for the #hedgehog in #ProtoIndoEuropean: the individual formations are all limited to one or two branches. However, two prominent naming patterns are observable. One is rather obvious, the other one probably a little bit surprising.
The Japanese Snow Fairy, is one of the deadliest predatory birds ever designed by, well, the Devil I assume! Its claws exude a terrifying 0.000000013 foot pounds of pressure, and its razor sharp beak can puncture nearly any light paper bag, if the bag is wetted first. Doom!
I wonder if anyone has noticed before that both Donald and Vladimir are names that mean "ruler of the world"? There should be a ban on names like this, they carry an ill-omen for the world.
A stunning example of a funerary portrait comes from the Fayum in Egypt ~ C2nd CE Her dress and jewellery suggest a life of some affluence or certainly the desire for abundance in the afterlife. Her arresting gaze ensures her memory still lives on even today. 🏛 KM, Vienna
A #Roman tile from Vienna with a fantastic graffito inscribed into the surface in cursive, roughly translating to 'if you can see me, I've fallen to the ground' - wonderful Roman sense of humour on display there! #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
Ascoli was also the first editor of the full text of the Milan Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS C301 inf., which contains the famous Old Irish glosses (codecs.vanhamel.nl/Milan_glosses). In some respects, his edition is superior to the later standard edition in the Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus. /1
#OTD 195 years ago, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli (1829-1907) was born 🎂 He was a professor of comparative philology in Milan and an expert on Italian dialects but also on Romani and Sanskrit. In 1881, he formulated the so-called substratum theory. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
Faunkill and the Woods (I-COR-014 = CIIC 66), the tallest ogam stone alive. MAQI-DECCEDDAS AVI TURANIAS "of Mac-Deichet descendant of Tornae"
I got happily & hopelessly lost today as I had no service and saw a sign for Ogham stone. I was a little surprised by what I saw 🧵
2024 - A Cat Odyssey A mysterious monolith suddenly appears in Catworld. Will it initiate a leap in the evolution of Catkind? @MULibraryCat