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Ugaritologist, Hebraist, Semitist, part IE-ist, non-fiction/fiction author. PhD & Reader/Senior Lecturer, Lund. Ex Pro Futura fellow (Uppsala & Cambridge). Ordained in a rare religion. Abyssum per Sapientiam Linguā Incarnandō. Ola-Wikander-eng.se
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Ugaritic expression of the day: ʕbd dgn ("worker of grain", or, theoretically, "worker/servant of Dagan"; ... it's a pun, you see, since the pic shows me writing about Baal, Dagan's son, for my upcoming Dragon book, whilst partaking of a scone – a grain product extraordinaire).

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Ugaritic expression of the day: ʕbd dgn ("worker of grain", or, theoretically, "worker/servant of Dagan"; ... it's a pun, you see, since the pic shows me writing about Baal, Dagan's son, for my upcoming Dragon book, whilst partaking of a scone – a grain product extraordinaire).

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Fondly remembering that time I translated Schleicher's Fable into Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Hittite as an intellectual exercise to celebrate Schleicher's birthday 12 years ago.

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Had a weird dream, in which I tried to argue that Hebrew lāšôn ("tongue"), and ultimately Proto-Afro-Asiatic *las-, had at some point had a lateral fricative, which would, by some extremely convoluted scenario, have proved a relationship with Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰweh₂ ("tongue").

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Ugaritic word of the day: Ndr ("vow", as a verb, "to make a vow, to vow").

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Just found my old setting-to-music of Avrom Reyzen's poem "Vuhin". Not half bad, though I say it myself!

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Etruscan word of the day: φersu ("mask" or "masked person" [probably]).

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Ugaritic word of the day: Ndr ("vow", as a verb, "to make a vow, to vow").

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Ugaritic word of the day: /yuḥawwiyu/ ("he brings to life" – D-stem 3rd person masculine singular long prefix conjugation of the "live" root). Pictured: yours truly and Eques a Sole Vivificante. I'm the one on the left.

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The kind of action we have at home on a typical Friday night. She is snoring. #catsofbluesky #tortie #letsleepingcatssleep

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Who called it Mark 5:1–20 and not Gerasic Pork

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Happy Valentine's Day featuring #Entrapta and #Hordak from She-Ra (2018)! #spop #entrapdak

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Ugaritic word of the day: tšrgn ("you deceive me", from the root šrg, "deceive, entangle"). Pictured, the excellent "Lögner" ("Lies") by Christina Ouzounidis.

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