@bnuyaminim.bsky.social catch me at the g-Κ-y pride parade
11.03.2026 08:31
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@bnuyaminim.bsky.social catch me at the g-Κ-y pride parade
Fun chain of derivation + borrowing:
#Hebrew g-Κ-y 'to be proud'
> gaΚaΜw-Δ 'pride'
> gaΚawαΉ―-Δn 'prideful'
> gaΚawαΉ―Δn-Ε«αΉ― 'pridefulness'
> #Yiddish gavsones 'arrogance'
> #Dutch kapsones 'airs'
> kapsones-lijer 'braggart'
Is bsky finally generating the long meandering threads that were peak Twitter of the olden days?
ΧΦ°ΧΦ·Χ¦Φ°ΦΌΧ’Φ΄ΧΧ¨ΦΈΦ€Χ ΧΦ·ΧΦΎΧΦ΄ΧΧΦ ΧΦΈΦ£ΧΦ°ΧΦΈΧ ΧΦ΅ΦΌΦΧ ΧΦ·ΧͺΦ΄ΦΌΧ§Φ°Χ¨ΦΈΦ₯Χ Χ©Φ°ΧΧΦΧΦΉ ΧΦΆΦΌΧΦΎΧ’Φ·ΧΦ΄ΦΌΦΧ ΧΦΧΦΌΧ ΧΦ²ΧΦ΄Φ₯Χ ΧΦ°Χ Φ΅Φ½ΧΦΎΧ’Φ·ΧΦΌΦΧΦΉΧ Χ’Φ·ΧΦΎΧΦ·ΧΦΌΦ½ΧΦΉΧΧ
Also he's the one who came up with naming cities Philadelphia (notably with Amman). The practice was taken up by Antiochus IV of Commagene because they had that in common.
It very much does NOT mean "the city of brotherly love"
Scare quotes because the top row was used equally for Phoenician, Aramaic, and Ammonite and I'm leaning towards just calling it North Levantine.
A thousand years of Noto Sans evolution ("Phoenician" > Imperial Aramaic > Hebrew)
Never realized the Cleopatra name was Seleucid influence.
Could be worse, I count like five ancestors in there
"Which Ptolemy?"
- "The one who loves his sibling"
"That doesn't really narrow it down"
he was married to his sister though, which makes his regnal name Philadelphios oddly apt
if I ever get a pet goat, I wanna name him Chad, which is of course short for βChad Gadyaβ
A dog would be Ben Yefunneh. And a cat would be the Maharam Pedua
If we ever get a rabbit, I want to call it Ahikam.
"Saul was β¦ years old when he began to reign; and he reigned β¦ and two years over Israel." Wasn't aware of this part of the anti-Benjaminite conspiracy.
That first one goes hard, damn
should have taken the Hamilcar
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 12 March (4.45 p.m.): Aaron Butts (Hamburg), 'The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christians'. In person and on line.
Really impressive to massively misread something in Unicode this badly
Yeah I really enjoyed it, just "trashy" in the sense that it's a highschool drama :) I also heard about the backlash and I must say I was surprised at how Western all these teens' lives were being portrayed.
![That is Nabataean Aramaic script! Itβs the ancestor of the modern Arabic alphabet, used by the Nabataean Kingdom (the people who built Petra) roughly between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD.
Translating it requires mapping those characters back to their Semitic roots. Here is the breakdown:
The Transliteration
Reading from right to left (as is standard for Nabataean):
π’π’ : 'B (Ab) β Father
π’π’ : DY (Di) β Of / Which
π’π’π’ : Ε MM (Sh'm'm) β Heavens
π’π’π’ : DNH (Dena) β This / That
π’π’ : NH (Na) β Our
π’π’π’ : BRK (Barak) β Blessed
π’π’π’ : QDY (Qadi) β Holy
The Translation
When reconstructed, this looks like a variation of a common liturgical opening or dedication:
"Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed [holy] be Thy name."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qbe3b7ljafblsyy4dhkkgj7t/bafkreigvzre2geo4n62skiobyuhuabiwes5msrbrozaelrbki5w2xryw5a)
That is Nabataean Aramaic script! Itβs the ancestor of the modern Arabic alphabet, used by the Nabataean Kingdom (the people who built Petra) roughly between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD. Translating it requires mapping those characters back to their Semitic roots. Here is the breakdown: The Transliteration Reading from right to left (as is standard for Nabataean): π’π’ : 'B (Ab) β Father π’π’ : DY (Di) β Of / Which π’π’π’ : Ε MM (Sh'm'm) β Heavens π’π’π’ : DNH (Dena) β This / That π’π’ : NH (Na) β Our π’π’π’ : BRK (Barak) β Blessed π’π’π’ : QDY (Qadi) β Holy The Translation When reconstructed, this looks like a variation of a common liturgical opening or dedication: "Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed [holy] be Thy name."
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Haha, my Nabataean Arabic isn't so good either so I would probably fall back to something Aramaic like π’π’ π’π’ π’π’π’ π’π’π’ π’π’ π’π’π’ π’π’π’
I think it's actually not bad for refreshing languages you've learned before (have used it for German with some success). But for learning something new, πππ Memrise used to be good but has been somewhat enshittified, I think. And no good for spoken Arabic anyway.
Eindelijk snap ik het :) Dankjewel! En wat cool dat de Rotskoepel ongeveer 1000 SE. gebouwd is.
One other note on this: Interestingly, Jesus' teaching about divorce comes in this exact context. The Pharisees ask Jesus not whether divorce is conceptually valid, but whether a man can divorce his wife for just any reason. The exact thing Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel were debating! (Some "test.")
The editors suggest mqtΜ£r ΚΎΕ‘ ΚΏΕ‘ ΚΎlΕ‘mΚΏ lysp bt ΚΎwt 'the incense altar that Elishama made for YSP daughter of ΚΎWT' but note several difficulties.
Thank you!
Black and white photograph of a stone multifaceted pillar with decorative lines at the top and Paleo-Hebrew lettering running down two of the faces.
#TIL about this beautiful #Moabite altar inscription from Khirbet el-Mudeine, Jordan.
What font is this?
