Ancient Persian Cambridge Core - Arabic and Middle Eastern Language and Linguistics - Ancient Persian

New open-access historical sociolinguistics of Persian from the Achæmenid period onward.
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98 εἰ γάρ τις καὶ πένθος ἔχων νεοκηδέι θυμῷ
/eː gár tis kaì pé̞ntʰo̞s é̞kʰɔːn ne̞o̞kɛːdé̞i tʰuːmɔ̂ːi/
Since if anyone also having sorrow in their freshgrieving heart
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I think I will try to avoid that particular hybris.

DINGIR isn't used in Old Persian, but BG (baga) means the same thing.

Changing the logogram next to my name and wondering if anyone will notice the escalating megalomania.

Yeah, authentic material is given a one or two more lessons in. These are still "we haven't learned the accusative case yet so here are some made up existential predicates" type sentences.

(I can also send it by email if you want. It's supposed to be a freely available text.)

This is from Prods Oktor Skjærvø's An Introduction to Old Persian (2e). It used to be hosted at sites.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/Old..., for a long time but since Harvard's website updated a bunch of stuff it's not longer available there. He seems to still have it on his academia dot edu page though.

Sorry, I just only now noticed that this post is over month old and other parts of the thread had been re-upped for some reason. Still interested if anything happens!

Keep me in the loop for whatever you end up doing. Now that I'm unemployed again I have a lot of time on my hands.

B–Translate into Old Persian: 1 We are called Persian, (but) we are Median. 2 These Parthians were not Medes. They were not good horsemen. 3 The Assyrians were not great kings. They were liars. 4 The Makranians have always been and still are disloyal. 5 The Sakas wearing pointed hats have been distinguished Aryans from old. 6 Happy subjects are loyal followers. 7 This is a happy family. 8 This empire is big.

I love how—because of the nature of the corpus material—the translation exercises from Skjærvø's Old Persian textbook are more stereotypically Wheelock's Latin than even Wheelock's Latin itself.

To be fair, nobody actually has a good hypothesis for where the word τύραννος comes from, and the theory that it's an Anatolian borrowing is mostly vibes.

I'm contemplating deleting the post because I feel guilty about spreading this further.

Why does this even exist?

I hate everything about this.

To repeat the comment I just left on the video: The concluding sentence "Why? There is no why. It's just what they do." may have been the singularly most devastating critique I have ever seen in a video essay.

Creamy Nuts Noodle Fort hmmm

Sanskrit Exuberant Compound OTD

दशरथसुतनिशितशरनिकरनिपातनिहतरजनीचरबलबहुलरुधिरसिक्तमूलम्

daśarathasutaniśitaśaranikaranipātanihatarajanīcarabalabahularudhirasiktamūlam

(He:With:)Ten:Chariots-son-sharp-arrow-heap-falling-killed-night:rover-army-abundant-blood-moistened-root-NOM:N:SG

My dumb brain just made me do a long-form meme. I'm sorry to inflict this onto the world.

Tocharian is inevitable so we may as well just learn how

lmao

Meme com os dizeres - Any doctor here? - I'm a doctor, what's going on? - a heart attack! - I'm a doctor in Indo-European linguistics - He is going to die - *ḱléwos *n̥dhgwhitóm

Tive que fazer isso.

Sorry, Bluesky, you're drunk. Come back when you're sober again.

Sorry I want to like this but I am afraid liking it might offend some of my very nice colleagues.

Seminar six: The Germanic Evidence (handout)

Digging through some stuff I packed away in storage since 2011. What do I find but the infamous Glottalic Theory seminar notes from Leiden 2009. Oh noooooo…

93 τοίη Μουσάων ἱερὴ δόσις ἀνθρώποισιν.
/toíɛː moːsáːɔːn ʰie̞rɛ̀ː dó̞sis antʰrɔ́ːpoisin/
Such is the sacred gift of the Muses to human beings.
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"Just as when the stars in the sky around the radiant moon." (C'mon Lattimore, catch up...)

Two hardback books sitting on a wooden table. Both are titled 'Studies in Greek literature', with white lettering on a black background in Cambridge University Press style. The cover image of the first volume is a red-figure vase painting showing a group of women - one is sitting and reading a scroll while the others look on.

Two important volumes - the collected papers of Prof Pat Easterling, the first (and so far only) woman to hold the Regius Chair of Greek at Cambridge, an alumna & honorary fellow of @newnhamcollege.bsky.social, & a hugely important scholar on Greek tragedy. All online via Cambridge core...

broken dragon bookend next to the book "how to kill a dragon"

seven years ago I left two of my kids in my office during a meeting. I came back to this

Aww yea, ρε μαλάκα.