Post

Mitzrayim is the Hebrew name for 'Egypt', and its -ayim ending curiously appears to be that of the dual grammatical number, for two things. I remain delighted by the explanation that it is originally dual, referring to the two ancient regions of Upper and Lower Egypt.

24/3/26, 3:07 pm5 reposts72 likes

SMELL GOOD BABY 🪬🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

@hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social

24 Mar

In ye olden times, Iraq was like this: al-3iraqayn, referring to Upper and Lower Mesopotamia. Upper was also called ‘al-Jazira’, a very nonspecific name that means ‘the region’ and was used for many places (like Eastern Arabia, once called ‘Bahrayn’ ‘the two seas’).

SMELL GOOD BABY 🪬🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

@hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social

24 Mar

Clarification: modern Bahrain has the name but originally ‘Bahrayn’ referred to a region of Eastern Arabia only (the inclusion of the island of Bahrain was not a given).

lingüista aburrido

@ernestowg.eurosky.social

24 Mar

Like when people today call them "the Americas" or "the Carolinas"?

Dr Danny Bate

@dannybate.com

24 Mar

Americayim, Carolinayim

lingüista aburrido

@ernestowg.eurosky.social

Absolutely

There's no Hebrew content in it, but if you'd like to read more about the dual, or just appreciate a punny title with a 90s film reference... dannybate.com/2024/03/27/t...

dannybate.comThe Fates of the DualThe Story of Indo-European’s (Mostly) Lost Number Reading time: 10 minutes Introduction One book, many books. One cat, many cats. One woman, many women. One sheep, many… well, also shee…

Antti Rasinen

@ars.iki.fi

25 Mar

I use an LLM-based coding assistant and often I want to talk to it about the work he and I did together. I read this article yesterday and today I added support for the tool to understand wit, unk and unker 😅