Mastodawn

Fun fact: West Sem. GDL means "to grow" so Gadal-Jama the Judean was named "YHWH is great" like Allah Akbar in Islam #philology #linguistics #onomastics

bookandswordblog 1d ago

One good example of ancient Judeans who did not see the Tetragamon as taboo: names like Gadal-Jama (the last word pronounced something like Yahwa) https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/11/26/scholars-have-discovered-how-to-pronounce-the-true-name-of-god/ #philology #ancientReligion #ancentJudaism

Scholars Have Discovered How to Pronounce the True Name of God - Tales of Times Forgotten

Today, most Jews, Christians, and Muslims simply call their god “God,” but it is fairly common knowledge that the texts of the Hebrew Bible refer to the God of Israel by his proper name, which, in Hebrew, is written as four letters: יהוה (YHWH), known as the tetragrammaton. At the time when the texts of … Continue reading "Scholars Have Discovered How to Pronounce the True Name of God"

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Stefan Dumont Mar 17

REMINDER: Journal of the #TEI: Call for Nominations for Editor

The Advisory Board of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (jTEI) seeks nominations and applications for an editor. Self-nominations are encouraged.

Review of nominations will begin on March 30, 2026. We will continue to review nominations/applications until the position is filled.

Mor information: Call for Nominations https://docs.google.com/document/d/14kXn2FZ4WcQQ0e7pSZ26aCGTh328q_acLInXpLWDGQg/edit?usp=sharing

#digitalhumanities #scholarlyEdition #linguistics #philology cc @TEIConsortium

JTEI: Call for Nominations for Editor 2026

Journal of the TEI: Call for Nominations for Editor January 15, 2026 The Advisory Board of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (jTEI) seeks nominations and applications for an editor. Self-nominations are encouraged. The principal duty of the editor will be to work with the other jTE...

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J. Alan Henning Feb 22

Fun exercise! A blog post written in nearly a dozen different snapshots of English.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english #English #philology #linguistics

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

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candle of lokening 🕯️Feb 9

Are you trying out making a new word? Bump me!

I have a lot of experience with making words (especially for norwegian) and Id love to give youfeedback!

#philology #conlang

Dr Ian McCormick Feb 5

Rise, fall, and modern revival: hurrah! #archaic #English #language #philology

bookandswordblog Jan 17

Salishan linguist Sarah Thomason has updated her site with online publications after twelve years (life as a tenured research academic is WEIRD) https://websites.umich.edu/~thomason/papers/papers.html #linguistics #philology #firstNations

bookandswordblog Jan 4

Its fun that Farsi and Arabic are full of Greek loanwords like Fars. ahl-e qalam "men of the pen" (Gr. κὰλαμος "reed") #philology #linguistics

bookandswordblog Nov 30

Arr mateys! English cutlass, Marlowe's curtle-axe, Middle French coutelas from couteau "knife", also appears in sixteenth-century German as Cordelas. Sources to follow. 1/2 #philology #pirate #sword