Ola Wikander

Updated list of my books, so far (thread)! First: Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragon, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible (2017) and Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study (2014)

Ave, praeclarissime doctor!

And there he is!

Waiting for the show to begin - Aljoša Šorgo to defend his Leiden dissertation on Phrygian historical grammar!

Cf. Arabic ثعلب (thaʕlāb) and the somewhat divergent (compared to the other two) Hebrew שׁוּעָל (šûʕāl). Note the nice correspondence between the pharyngeal in the two West Semitic words and the "colored" /ē/ in Akkadian.

Akkadian word of the day: šēlebu(m) - "fox".

On my way to Leiden.

@spectrumarvel The weird and scifi one!

#Now watching ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Season 6 (2019)

And now, there's a cover! bloomsbury.com/us/humanness-a…

Hittite word of the day: Kattaluzzi- ("threshold", apparently also borrowed into Luwian as kattaluzzit-).

Jag intervjuas i senaste numret av tidningen Författaren.

Kouchean Tocharian (Tocharian B) word of the day; Sänmetstse ("soothed, in trance, entranced, calm"). Ultimately from the root *swep-, "to sleep". Pictured: the gate of Hōmyō-ji (法明寺), Ikebukuro.

Me talking about (and reading) Hurrian - including stuff on both Araunah and Tušratta of Mitanni! youtu.be/iNmK2rLt2NA

Ugaritic word of the day: /ʔanāku/, /ʔanā/ ("I").

Thing I actually think AI bots are really great for: sending them photos of vocab lists for languages one is learning (including verbal roots), and having them quiz you on the roots and the present formations!

New article started. I'm going to challenge myself by doing this short-form, sending it to a journal that demands that. I am prone to long-winded "on the one hand/on the other hand"-type argumentation with massive discursive footnotes, so this will be interesting.

Suddenly, your favorite night-owl philologist is up before sunrise. Ah, jetlag. Actually quite fun... in parts. Throbbing headache and collapsing in the afternoon is... less fun. But being able to work as the sun rises and not being headed for bed just after does have its perks!

Ni vet det där vi marxister med en dåres envishet brukar upprepa om att liberalismen på grund av klassintresset inte klarar att stå pall mot högerextremismen? Well...

"Dagarna är tomma luckor mellan drömfyllda nätter." - Tyra Kleen

I may have come up with an idea concerning certain pieces of Afro-Asiatic nominal morphology and early Semitic stuff while in Japan. Maaaaybe.

帰国しました!