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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Two-year Mellon Post-doc in Linguistics at Cornell. Historical linguists strongly encouraged to apply! societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/mellon-postd...

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

C. Hutton 2025 The People that Never Were OUP: "The proposition that the German word Hund and the English word hound are cognate or related etymologically or, to use William Jones’s words, “sprung from some common source,” is difficult to sustain on close examination." So no cognates. Got it.

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Semiticists, is there a more recent treatment of the "middle affricate hypothesis" than Kogan's discussion in Weninger 2011? Is it now communis opinio that "zayin" was an affricate in PS or in Canaanite? I'd be grateful for any pointers. @phdnix.bsky.social ky.social, @bnuyaminim.bsky.social

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Α linguistic joke from Maximus Planudes (1260 – c. 1305). The joke is that the 10 highlighted words are all pronounced /erimin/!

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

An oft-repeated argument in favor of a fronted value for υ in Attic and East Ionic is the “fact” that the letter κ, not ϙ, is used before υ, since it no longer symbolized a back vowel— Qoppa supposedly was only used before back vowels or l plus a back vowel. So Allen Vox Graeca p. 67, n. 11.

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Amazon review of Kuśiññe Kantwo by Skid Kid: "If you have studies Sanskrit and Buddhism, these would work well. For someone just wanting an elementary book of Tocharian, it is terrible."

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

packhum.org is down. Does anybody know anything about this?

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Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Here are the criteria I use when reviewing Voynich decipherment articles, developed as part of teaching about the Voynich manuscript in linguistics classes. They are independent of any particular language, person, or approach, except that it's for solutions that claim there's underlying meaning

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A Summer school in Philosophical #Sanskrit: The 4th edition of the Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia will take place in Vienna, Austria, from July 7 to July 12 2025. (Fees are ridiculously low: 100 E w/o accommodation or 400 w accommodation & breakfast) 1/

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Tracing the Spread of Celtic Languages using Ancient Genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Albin Jaques @albinjaques.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Michiel de Vaan, Cantonophonie. Sur l’origine des noms des cantons suisses, Prilly, Les Presses Inverses, 2025. wp.unil.ch/labelettres/...

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Professorship of Latin at Uppsala. N.B. "Research is conducted both at the department and at the university library in areas such as textual criticism, epigraphy, syntax, historical linguistics, metrics and poetry." www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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Olle Engkvist Foundation Chair Professor in Latin - Uppsala University

Olle Engkvist Foundation Chair Professor in Latin, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Great opportunity for students of #Sanskrit who want to reach the next level.

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

@olawikander.bsky.social @bnuyaminim.bsky.social Can you point me towards recent lit. about the vocalization of ancient Phoenician name of Byblos (Akk. Gubla)? I am interested in whether the Greek rendering really implies that they heard it as *gwubl-

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Lu 62, Roccagloriosa, has the protasis σϝαι ειοκ νειπ fακτιεδ[….. "if x does not do these things" with the incomprehensible form fακτιεδ. This may be an inverse spelling for /fakset/ = Lat. faxit. We have evidence that tiV became s at least at Bantia (Bansae = Bantiae) and final -d was devoiced.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1

A faint writing, the text is in Latin and it reads: Domina magistra felhin date mihi licenciam in hac nocte vigilare cum magistra adalu et ego vobis ambabus manibus confirmo atque iuro ut per totam noctem declinare volo aut legere aut pro seniore nostro cantare Valete et ut peto facite. (Abbreviations have been resolved in this transcription).

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Lexicon Leponticum @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

🏺 The personal name ⟨koma⟩ (less likely ⟨koiśa⟩) is inscribed – not particularly neatly – on the bottom of a ceramic cup from the Giubiasco necropolis in Ticino (CH), dated to the late 1st c. BC. Komā or Kommā is most likely a hypocoristic name formed from a compound with preverb kom- 'with' ...

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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Vote on the TLL Latin Word of the Year 2024! Until Dec. 19. The five finalists were published this year in the TLL and don't appear in another standard dictionary of ancient Latin. ⭐️reteiaclor ⭐️retotatototato ⭐️retroactim⭐️revaleo⭐️revolumen parerga.hypotheses.org/3516

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Latin Word of the Year 2024

With the Vox Anni contest now in its third season, the Thesaurus linguae Latinae community is excited to share with you the contestants for Latin Word of the Year 2024. (Learn more about the previous ...

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Very sad to hear about the passing of Prof. Sharon L. James. She was a great colleague at UNC and a kind and funny person.

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Schedule for Pavia summer school. Looking forward to teaching here and hearing the other courses (Sept. 2-7)! github.com/unipv-larl/6...

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

With the author's permission I've posted an English version of Susanne Zeilfelder's 2012, Übungsheft zur indogermanischen Lautlehre as Exercises for Indo-European Phonology at my Academia page www.academia.edu/109794237/Ex.... I hope students will find these useful!

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