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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦

@mihalyfy.bsky.social

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🙋 Dayjobber 📚 PhD in Religion ☀ Obsessed with Egyptian-Coptic historical linguistics Bylines on everything from cults to culture. Low-volume posting (focusing on writing and research!). www.mihalyfy.com 🇺🇲 Illinois, U.S.A.

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · Nov 11

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HELLO EVERYBODY!

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I suddenly have a lot of new followers, so I guess I'm on a list...?

Anyhow, a quick introduction to me and my recent work (especially on religion & Egyptian-Coptic historical linguistics).

CC: #Egyptology #Linguistics #LangSky

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 9h

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 17h

some notes on toddler (3yo + couple months) German so far:

everything is "das" right now; she doesn't really do gender differences of any kind yet. i'll say "danke für die hilfe" and she will say it right back to me as "danke für das hilfe". even in English everybody is he/him/his to her.

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 16h

My review of Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities is up at BMCR:

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 10h

Met lotsa historians on here which was important as an interdisciplinary scholar

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 9h

It also seems to be an honorific transposition in this interpretation.

N + S-stem = passive + causative.

So, flagging the passive reflects badly on the pharaoh?

But causative is okay because it highlights action of gods (and also is inseparably built into the reed sign).

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Debborah Donnelly @debborahdonnelly.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating!
Historic Artifacts Recovered from Vulture Nests in Spain
#archaeology
archaeology.org/news/2025/10... - via @archaeologymag

News - Historic Artifacts Recovered from Vulture Nests in Spain - Archaeology Magazine

CIUDAD REAL, SPAIN—According to a Phys.org report, scientists led by Antoni Margalida of the Institute […]

archaeology.org

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 1d

Btw it's way beyond my research abilities/expertise, but the title that I'm calling "exalted" is more like "magnified" ("was-made-great")...

I've run across the word '3 "great" used in funerary contexts in later periods.

I wonder about possible cultural connotations?

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

This chapter has now been out for more than six months and thus magically becomes #OpenAccess:

Sound Change in the Hebrew Reading Tradition

This contribution to Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions investigates for Biblical Hebrew "to what degree this corpus retained its phonological independence from the vernacular f...

works.hcommons.org

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Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 1d

This chapter has now been out for more than six months and thus magically becomes #OpenAccess:
scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/...

Ṯamūd: Reading traditions | Scholarly Publications

scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! This involves some speculation on the use of b3 as a term applied to multiple animals... I would love your feedback when I write up a blogpost!

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 14d

Halloween + Sukkot =

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Uwe Edelheid feat. mariazielenbach @mariazielenbach.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch "zonder" 'without' is cognate to German "sondern" 'rather, but'. Both come from a Proto-Germanic root meaning 'separate, apart'. English are "sunder", "asunder" etc. are cognate as well.
#LessObviousDutchGermanCognates

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 A new theory, just debuted at NACAL 48! 🚨

This pharaonic title is like "Exalted & Mighty."

1st bit = N + S-stem of '3 "great" (> Coptic ⲛⲉⲥⲱ "beautiful").

2nd bit = C1(V?)C2V(:)C2 adjective related to b3 "power" (cf. ⲕⲙⲟⲙ "black").

Blogpost to follow.

#Egyptology
#Linguistics
#AncientBlueSky

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 3d

The correct answer is, "Michael Jackson's jacket from Thriller."

(Yes, the original.)

David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 3d

Recognize anything?

David is standing next to Michael Jackson's iconic jacket from his Thriller video.

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langscipress.bsky.social @langscipress.bsky.social · 14d

We accepted "Directional extensions in Chadic languages" by Joseph Lovestrand langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 3d

Poland’s two biggest cultural exports in the 21st century:

1. The Witcher
2. The saying „not my circus, not my monkeys”

(heard now on yet another English language TV show)

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Marc Reyes @marcus1984.bsky.social · 3d

This week @contingent-mag.bsky.social announced a #cfp for our December series, A Time of Monsters.

If you have a monster pitch, please send it our way. Thanks to a Kitchings Family Foundation grant, every essay will be $300.

#skystorians #monsters

contingentmagazine.org/cfp-a-time-o...

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 3d

The correct answer is, "Michael Jackson's jacket from Thriller."

(Yes, the original.)

David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 3d

Recognize anything?

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 3d

According to my theory, these are verbal nouns (substantivized adjectives) occupying the same noun slot as titles like "Two Ladies," "Golden Horus," etc.

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 3d

Recognize anything?

David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 3d

Also, as I discussed at NACAL 48, "infinitive" is also a slightly misleading category.

Better terminology is "merged paradigm of verbal nouns," where what's called the "infinitive" is actually a collection of infinitives, participles, or substantivized adjectives.

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 3d

There was -t drop early, and so that appearance is probably an orthographic hangover.

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 3d

This ties into larger arguments about adjective formation that I also debuted at NACAL 48.

Biliteral stems underwent gemination to create alternate adjectival forms where a distinctive vowel appeared between the 2nd and 3rd root consonants, just like in Berber and Semitic.

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 3d

Not to my knowledge.

But, there's a cuneiform transcription and both halves resemble Coptic words for "reed" and "honey."

I believe the bee is also used in one sentence where it occupies what's called the Infinitive slot.

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