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Ola Wikander

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Lundensian. Ugaritologist, Hebraist, Semitist, part IE-ist, 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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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · Nov 18

Thread of all my currently published books! (1/x):

First:

"Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragons, 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)

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 2h

(especially if it was *very* approximanty and weakly articulated)

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 2h

And, not least:
it's quite easy to see how such a sound could turn into [j] or zero.

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Anís del moro @anisdelmoro.bsky.social · 3d

B. Herin and E. Al-Wer, A Grammar of Jordanian Arabic, 2025 (Open Access).
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 2h

[...] That would work with its etymological connection with "liquids" in other AA langs, its being used to render rhotics in transcriptions, and its being used to adumbrate (so to speak) /l/-sounds.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 2h

Ok, so my guess for the (an?) early pronunciation of Egyptian /ꜣ/ is that it was some kind of retroflex or perhaps even bunched approximant (in the vicinity of [ɻ] or [ɹ̈]). [...]

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 2d

Today's reminder that the opposite of "atheist" is not "believer in the Bible" (whatever that means).

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 3d

And tvl must be short for tular ("border, limit")! Very cool.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 3d

The name of the guy is spacey: Vnata Zutas. Zutas does look like an Etruscan nomen gentile though (-as).

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, Thanks for the revised transliteration! That makes more sense! Cool!

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 4d

And J. Maxwell Miller, who, iirc, thought Jebus was a *different* place than Jerusalem, but still a real place.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 4d

Idea:
Version of the manga "Go! Go! Ackman" intended for specialists in Greek lyric poetry, called "Go! Go! Alcman".

Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 4d

(cf. Niels Peter Lemche)

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 8d

Two ways to make passive verbs in Ruus Al Jibal:

1. Stem VII (yɨnCɨCɨC)
yōkɨl 'he eats' ➡️ yɨnwɨkɨl 'it gets eaten' √w-k-l

2. "Internal passive"
yōkɨl 'he eats' ➡️ yūkal 'it is eaten'

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 6d

This council could have been an ostracon

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 5d

Eblaite word of the day:
*ʕiṣ̂u(m) ("wood", spelt i-zu or ì-zu).

Train cars loaded with logs of wood, from Småland in Sweden.

Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 5d

As mentioned earlier, some of if the letters are weird and the transliteration even weirder. I must admit I am highly sceptical...

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 5d

Some of the letters look... weird. The alleged "n", for example.

Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 5d

*look*

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 5d

The text (as opp. to letter forms) does not very Etruscan...

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 5d

(I would wager it's not, but...)

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 5d

Do you if it's in the CIE?

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 5d

I'll ask two people who know the corpus very well (Annie Burman and my dad) during the upcoming days.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 5d

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 7d

Han heter "Mumintrollet". Inte "Mumin". Slut på meddelandet.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 9d

Ugaritic word of the day:
ntbt ("path, way, road").

Östra Mårtensgatan, a cobblestone street in Lund, under blue skies.

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