Benjamin Suchard

This second part actually contains some important advice for human reviewers, too.

I don't think that's right. Plenty of constructions in IE and Latin like ut + subjunctive, where the mood depends on a preceding particle.

Because "we", the audience of grammars that use terms like jussive, are working in a paradigm that used to write in Latin.

The tradition *in Hebrew* instead goes back to the Arab grammarians and started in Arabic. Does that make it a better description? 🤷‍♂️

neat diminutive: mṣayra, ⟨mṣai̯ra⟩ (i would've thought mṣayriyye/⟨mṣai̯riyye⟩, but this might be forced by the rhyme)

for that matter, neat original singular i didn't know was used: məṣriyye 'a coin'

Here's an Old English riddle for you:

A wonder happened on the wave: water turned to bone

wundor wearð on weġe: wæter wearð to bane

Yeah I was wondering whether this was the same, because they're Classical borrowings. But probably not. Shows you how the Classical rule developed though!

I wonder the same thing for تيماء.

Could just be general pausal dropping or lazy articulation of n... The speaker also says something like sākẽ for ساكن in pause.

I think my Levantine course has people dropping the -n of adverbial -an in pause, like:

dāʔiman bišrab ... vs. bišrab ... dāʔima 'I always drink...'

Am I hearing this right, and do people actually do this?

From Latin(ate) descriptions of Hebrew, I mean. Because in Hebrew the bare form does include that commanding meaning, e.g. yəhī < *yahy 'let him be'.

OK but what if we call it a perfective? (Aspect, but still TAM.) As I mentioned before, I think the "jussive" term may be borrowed from Hebrew grammar, where IMHO the cognate of -لِ that actually gives the jussive meaning was lost.

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Zegt er iemand zi[d]zak?

Ah, OK. We can't explain this with inflection vs. compounding following different rules? (I don't think I voice the cluster in zakdoek BTW, but I know it's a thing.)

I'm also wondering how to explain this assimilation with the fricatives through aspiration. Must be voicing there, no?

Soon

Sorry, could you give an example?

I thought I might be wrong about that! And yeah, I just have a hard time hearing the difference between [z] and [zˁ] still.

It's encouraging that I've learned all the words you mentioned so far!

Another Akkadianism in Ezekiel (and Daniel): לבש בדים = labiš kitê 'clothed in linen' Ezekiel 9 and 10 feature a supernatural figure described as a man &quot;clothed in linen (לָבֻשׁ בַּדִּים)&quot; (Ezek. 9:2). This article identifies this and related expressions (including those in Da...

Ha, looks like it hasn't seen a lot of action recently then

Meme of four hands holding four pills (red, blue, yellow, green) labeled with the Arabic letters zay, dhal, dha' and dad.

me trying to find a Levantine word with [z] on Wiktionary

Which one?

FWIW I read that ⟨comfort⟩ as Dutch, /kɔmˈfɔːr/.

Heppy Helloween

איתי אנשין שגיאין די אמרין דנה

Reposting again now I've watched it 😁

Wiktionary entry: جرسون • (garsōn) m (plural جراسين (garāsīn), feminine جرسونة (garsōne)). 1. waiter

Love the morphological integration on this Levantine #Arabic borrowing from #French garçon. 🐦🐦

Names have been fixed!

Interesting! Guess it fits?

I present, the lenition hypercube

4yo has started saying "Wallalujah". The breakthrough in interreligious dialogue we've all been waiting for