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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
@davidstifter.bsky.social
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https://maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-celtic-studies-philosophy/our-people/david-stifter
I was literally reading this while sitting in a personnel development workshop for leadership, where one of the concepts that was brought up by one of my colleagues was "university is about constant change - what else should it be".
January 15, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Sea.
January 15, 2026 at 8:26 AM
GML: ...gur an-dócha é...
January 15, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Seachas "is dócha", deirim anois go bhfuil sé an-dócha ("very probably") nó gur cinnte é.
January 15, 2026 at 6:16 AM
There are no fixed times yet.
January 15, 2026 at 5:36 AM
We've been waiting for you! 😉
January 14, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Thank you very much, that piece of information is interesting. One would wonder, though, even if the Tuscan change is old, whether it could have influenced Irish.
January 13, 2026 at 5:59 PM
...knowledge of non-classical Latin). On the contrary, some Romance and Celtic languages continue *spritus, e.g., French esprit or Welsh ysbryd. This, however, has no reflex in Irish. These different forms probably just represent borrowings at different times from different sources, no dialects.
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January 13, 2026 at 6:55 AM
...confusing enough, the matter is complicated by the question about the source of this loanword. Some of the forms look as if they continue Vulgar Latin *spirtus, but I am not aware that such a form ever existed anywhere (I would be grateful for any further guidance by those with more...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:55 AM
...as disyllabic spirut, gen. sg. spirito, spirto, once spiruto. At the same time, some adjectival forms in Würzburg are built on monosyllabic spi(u)rt, namely spirdáldi and spirtálde, while others are based on the disyllabic form, namely spiritáldib and spiritide. If that is not already...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:55 AM
That could be more than two years... That's determination.
January 11, 2026 at 7:29 PM
It should be possible, if you only do one line each day.
BTW, is there an error in "ἁπαλοῖσιν / haploîsin"?
January 11, 2026 at 7:16 PM
No, I don't think there is any comprehensive study or introduction for this. Maybe @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social knows something.
January 11, 2026 at 6:47 AM
...local symbols that could easily be carved into wood. By physical necessity, carving in wood or metal results in signs in many regions that outwardly look similar, but which have no connection with each other. This must be the case here.
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January 11, 2026 at 6:26 AM
...runes, but what the relationship is between the two is unclear and still up for academic research. (I won't go into the complicated details here.) In any case, those Walser symbols have nothing to do with either Germanic runes or with ancient North-Italic alphabets. They are probably just...
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January 11, 2026 at 6:26 AM