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@IrisKamil
This account will stay up so people can still read the letters. The inhumanity got too much to bear.
Katılım Kasım 2013
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“We are fighting for our lives, for our future, and mostly for the future of our children.”
Arab-Israeli TV anchor @lucyaharish interrupted rolling coverage of Hamas’s atrocities against Israelis to make this heartrending appeal to the world.
Please listen and share.
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My cousin, her parents and sister and aunts are in the hands of Hamas. Children, women, my disabled uncle and his caretaker.
לינור דויטש@LinorDeutsch
שקד שלנו, בת קיבוץ בארי, בהריון חודש שמיני עם שני קטנטנים בני 3 ושנה בבית, מתמודדת עם חטיפת הוריה, אחותה ובעלה ושני ילדיהם, שתי דודותיה ודודה החולה עם המטפל שלו, לעזה. פה היא מספרת על רגעי הקשר האחרונים. אי אפשר להכיל #HamasisISIS
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@IrisKamil Several East Indonesian languages borrowed the Dutch phrase "van doen hebben" 'have to do' as "fandun"
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@IrisKamil Murrinhpatha loaded tina „sun“ from English dinner. When white people arrived they used that word for scheduled midday mealtime, which local people associated with Sun at full height, then it became an new way of saying Sun and soon displaced the old word
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@IrisKamil Just add the prefix (+ maybe a suffix, depends). Thus in some varieties there is taktunya “quince” from cotōneum and (a)fărsaɣu (or sth similar) “prach” from persicum malum. But not that many loans have more than 3 consonants in Latin
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@ait_kisou What if you got a loan with four or more consonants? What would that look like?
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@IrisKamil The presence of noun prefixes is general (with a few exc.s) - probably some kind of determiner that lost its meaning and became part of the word. For the rest there is quite some variation in noun types and morphology (sometimes suffixed plurals, sometimes internal plurals etc)
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@ait_kisou Ohhh fun, so they literally loaned morpho-syntactic features! I love that. Do all Berber nouns have the same patterns though? I know really nothing about it
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@IrisKamil t(a) is the feminine prefix, so this is basically just morhology. The masculine (sg) prefix is a-, so you get afullus “chick”. Sometimes in a word with initial a, the a is interpreted as the prefix, so we have asnus, pl. isnas “donkey foal” from asinus 😁
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@ait_kisou Is there a productive template in Berber that loans tend to appear in? Why did they choose a t-prefix template?
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@IrisKamil And let me add that Latin Pascua is continued in Berber as tafaska in the meaning of “Aid al-kabir” (where the sheep is slaughtered). The Berber term was taken over as tabaski in Wolof, which is nowadays the general word for the Aid in West-African French
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@IrisKamil Maybe it helps that Ancient Egyptian bnr “date” is a very early loan into Berber *te-βăyne (in most varieties becoming tiyni), which made its way into Kanuri difúno, and - probably through Kanuri - ended up in Hausa as dabíínoo.
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@IrisKamil Did you know Proto-Slavic loaned the Gothic word for elephant (𐌿𐌻𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 [ulbandus]) as *velьbǫdъ. The unexpected turn: *velьbǫdъ got to designate another unknown animal to the Slavs — the camel :)
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@DeliciousLegacy Thanks! I studied in Vienna, so yes, completely different curriculum, system, and pace.
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@IrisKamil All the best! Stupid question: why is this? Did uni education changed that much, or you studied elsewhere, not in UK?
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22. The Mesopotamian Ice Trade 🧊
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The Mesopotamian ice trade 🧊🌨️ This letter was sent to our favourite good-for-nothing, Yasmaḫ-Addû, by the vassal king of Carchemish. It shows us that the practice of harvesting ice and exporting it goes back to as early as the 1750s BCE! (1/6)
21. Clothes make the awīlum!
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“Clothes make the awīlum” In Old Babylonian schools, if you didn’t wear the newest Prada™ robes but instead clothes hand-made by your mum, you were considered to be less loved by her. … or so argued this spoiled son of a high official. Here is the letter of Iddin-Sîn to Zinû!
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