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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

A new word ! I am all for it... A wee roomier than "give" & shorter and punchier than "deliver" 👌🏼

where he's set to giver a speech about the economy, and his administration's message on affordability.
That will get going at 4:30pm ET, and

Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

From M. Sanchez Cat<>Amazic Dictionary

$O6S -vprim -o0- ~ -80- /-80o- / MZB-WRG-FIG -808-~-805- ~ ttoO- / -ttoOo- gnrlt + dic prox estar situat, trobar-se, escaure's T LoIS X A- S80 YOL-I\81? on s'escau el Vostre poble? || tocar, caure 1 +80o-5oO toAAoO+ X 8R8O li va tocar una casa en herència || tornar, arribar, venir 580o-A 4O O oHIN8S | toH8K+ va tornar / arribar / venir cap a sol post I S80-A AX 84O0oe8 ha vingut en vaixellI oleA8 A-580ol l'estiu Vinent |l anar bé, escaure, conveni, ésser convenient, ésser adequat 1 80 oE-A-+802 +OXoO+- oA no tescau aquest cinturó I AA8, oSIlo oK-A-580ol, Do-+ S8Oo-5-A d'acord, el que et convingui a tu em convé a mi Il ésser parent, estar emparentat, ésser de la família ttoO-A 8M+LoO és de la família de la seva germana TRG aşu arribar, trobar, estar bé, ésser convenient, ésser imminent, trobar oportú, yDMS as anar cap a, arribar a; veni, tornar, arribar, esdevenir + dic prox; anar al punt assenyalat, trobar-se amb + dic lluny$

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

And apprently there is "calçonette" though not very common in Std. Fr. and not a dictionary word, yet. 'karṣuṭ' could be a mashup of two words? Serhoual gives only 'kalsu' though.

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026

From my Twitter archive, where I had posted about Mmuy/Mou. Aktwit4 said that Ayt Sedrate (b/w Boumalne & Msemrir, NE of Skoura) also say /v/ for /b/: lǝvṛiq < lǝbṛiq lvǝrrad < lbǝrrad ṭṭavla < ṭṭabla avrid < abrid Seems, there is a /v/ trail from Sedrate to Mouy !

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

I think it is from Arabic رغا Doha Dictionary dates it back to ca. 9th century

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

Prasse et al. > Kǝl-Ǝkǝmmeḍ: lit. people of the ežwăl (burn-mark) called akǝmmeḍ > akǝmmeḍ: name of an ežwăl (= two horizontal lines on the thigh (animal), property mark..." There is no verb KMḌ = burn. Not in Heath, either. Yet, verb exists in Moroccan Tmz (SE, CA), Taš: kmḍ, kʷmḍ, kʷmṭ...

W *akəmmned-ikəmmedăn (ə/-) m. l nom đ'un ežwăl ( deux traits horizontaux sur la cuisse; marque de propriété des

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

Re Ḥassania, could the proximity with Zenaga play a role? Zng and other Northern Amazigh lects have -s- (lax) -ss- (tense) causative form From Carles Múrcia, Gramàtica amaziga

b) A la diàtesi causativa un nou argument fa d agent, de manera que el subiecte A verb primari esdevé el complement directe de la forma derivada. En amazic el satiu té dues funcions:
1) Fa derivar un verb transitiu d'un verb primari intransitiu, com a OO:TU SROO..5$80 issufy ukssab ayyis el ramader fa que el cavall surti (- HIY fy 'sortir).
2) Fa derivar un verb a partir d'un nom o una onomatopeia, de manera que el derivt denominatiu pot ser transitiu, com ara J.M awalparaula→ 0UM siwl ´parlar, o intransitiu, com ara H1.O afunas bou' → H:.O sfunas 'ésser bast, ésr maldestre', 0.ULI! haww! 'bub-bub!? (crit del gos) > ODUU shiww "borut, lladrar', XƏ! xub! glup-glup! (so del glopeig) > OXOe sxubbi beurt1 glops.

Per aquesta raó en

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

Could be! Though, in Tmz (SE Morocco) it is always with /ur/: > ur wala ittannay (he does not see very well). BTW this neg use of 'wala' is not found in Tash. Stroomer gives 'wala' = very, citing Boogert. No example. 🧵1/2

WYwallen (adv.) beaucoup, très, X: oşāş-tu wəllen il l'a bien (fortement) serré I wəllen! volontiers (avec plaisir)! certai- nement surtout I wer Wlen pas t I wƏllen --- très bien,wər-tətənņay wəllen il ne voit pas (très) bien HDNhullan. wwU hullen

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

The neg. loc. exists in SE Morocco. It means " not so/as/that (much)" ur wala d tteddun : they don't come/visit that much

WA
Wala. Tellement, très. loc« Ur wala>: pas loc« Ur wala Villi usemmit»: il ne
fait pas tellement froid.

tellement.

ryed.

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

From Hadaddou: Tuareg: 'tahibba' pl. 'tihibbawin' = chainmail I wonder if it is not a loan from Arabic: جبة " jubbaʰ "?

tahibba, pl. tihibbawîn « cotte de mailles (sorte de tunique faite en petits anneaux de fer, servant d'arme defensive, p. ext. réseau métallique quelconque, ornement en mailles métalliques, porté par les femmes, fig. labyrinthe lieu inextricable) >» (To)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 14/06/2026

PS: From Dafina. net list of Moroccan Jewish names: Azancot

Azancot :: plusieurs origines possibles, soit nom d'origine berb et signifiant gazelles, soit originaire d 'Aqa lIzekad, ksar des Sketana, Oued Draa au Maroc; soit originaire des Oules Izenkad dans la tribu des lda Oultit au Sahel marocain.

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 21/04/2026

Today's post from U Barcelona Press. 🤗 Shsh!! don't ask about shipping $$

Two book covers:
- Carles Múrcia, AGDAL 'Per Afro cae gentes, deserta atque loca'
- Carles Múrcia, Gramàtica amaziga

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 10/04/2026

It's finally here! Just received my translator's copies...

Picture of an open box with a book balanced on top. The book cover shows the dark shadow of a howling wolf/jackal against a beige, ochre backdrop with floating Tifinagh alphabet letters. The cover reads "Bread of the ravens" by Aksil Azergui, Translated from Tamazight, revised and edited by Hamid Ouyachi

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 02/04/2026

Flatter & tadpole somehow linked :) kaikki.org/dictionary/A...

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 24/03/2026

Reading D. Casajus on Emrewelqis (Imru' l-Qays) in Touareg poetry. A bit of boasting 'adaptranslated' into Tamazight: Mṛulqqis hat nkkin assa ayd-t igan addud, giġ-ak timmaẓ a bu-yzlan ur-d ikkisn i taḍfi n ddunit ġas imnḍiḍan yafid afus g tfrut anggu t-isselkan Source: shorturl.at/6EM54

A quatrain in French excerpted from Dominique Casajus, "L'errance d'Imrû'l-Qays : poésie arabe et poésie touarègue":

C'est moi qui suis l' Emrewelqis du monde d'aujourd'hui.
Allons! Que je mette Emrewelqis au d'efi !
En vain il a goûté jadis les plaisirs du monde
car il a trouvé en moi un rival qui, l'épée à la main, le tient pour rien

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 24/02/2026

Perhaps: "He does not guide them"? As in: لا يهديهم Jives with what follows... Murcia's Amazic-Catala dictionary has: TRG 'sǝmmtǝr': aconsellar (counsel, advise, guide...)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 10/02/2026

Morocco: Public sector LLMs trained on Darija and Amazigh. Issues with AI aside, i wonder if the LLMs will be regionalized to account for dialectal var, (with code-switching :-o) and be more accessible, or just stuffed with IRCAM artificial koine...

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 21/01/2026

A version of the closing formula in Tamazight folktales: [...] I left it [there] in strife (evil) and I came in peace, [and] they struck me with bread, and I struck them with lead, [but] they kept missing me, I kept hitting them [...] (screenshot from Bynon's collection)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 09/01/2026

PS: with a plural: بتاعننا صحيفة التحرير » مالكم كيف تحكمون-إتفاقية_سيداو (5) share.google/6HftL0NmpQfL...

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 09/01/2026

The /n/ seems to show up also with the bitaʕ form: بتاعن قلبك

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 06/01/2026

> Prasse et al (Niger): ažənžər 'gros scarabée/bousier' (also azənkekər; eḳănḳăr) > Heath (Mali): ġšnšr>æġšínšær 'dung beetle' (also, žnžr, ḳnḳr, žnkkr) My question: could 'zanzər' have any link to the word for 'sunray': iẓinẓṛ (also found in Tunart)? Perhaps, pushing it too far, but... 👇🏽

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 06/01/2026

#3 Ibn Tunart (d.1172) continued: > الجعل, scarab, dung beetle: zanzər A quick survery of a few dictionaries: > Taine-Cheikh (Zenaga): iʔẕ̌ənẕ̌ər 'scarabée stercoraire, bousier' > Destaing (B. Snous): zinzer 'bousier' > Serhoual (Rif): tišurin uzinzar 'boules de bousier' 👇🏽

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 05/01/2026

Also in Bulgaria. See screenshot from Frazer's Golden Bough, which has many variations on rituals with dolls associated with fertility (rain) and to ward off death. Japan has dolls to keep rain away: teru teru bozu steemit.com/japan/@dboos...

Frazer, "Golden Bough", p. 405:
In Russia also the last sheaf is often shaped and dressed as a
woman, and carried with dance and song to the farmhouse. Out of
the last sheaf the Bulgarians make a doll which they call the Corn
queen or Corn-mother; it is dressed in a woman's shirt, carried
round the village, and then thrown into the river in order to secure
plenty of rain and dew for the next year's crop.

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 03/01/2026

From Stroomer 'tamnjušt' means: 'autumn' (Bounfour & Boumalk);'autumn & early rains; late cultivation' (Amard); 'early produce' (Ropars). It seems to cluster: lxrif, amenzu, amaẓuẓ

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 30/12/2025

More gleanings: Ibn Tunart's (d.1172) dictionary (MS_088_a). Brackets= my lect, Tmz, Goulmima, Morocco) > isggusn: years (isggʷasn) > irn: months (ayyurn) > tanbdudt: summer (anbdu, ṣṣif) > tagrst: winter (tagrst) > talddrar: spring (tifsa, ṛṛbiʕ) > tamnžušt: fall (amḍṛ, lxrif) *seasons all fem!

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 22/12/2025

> id-asṭṭa : Pleaides (lit. ‘the weavers’, similar to ‘timeẓḍawin’ [Timimoun (Souag)]); in Boogert = id yesṭeḍ; he also gives al-Hilālī: ida sṭṭ (see @lameensouag.bsky.social “Astronomy among the Ayt Xebbac” for a discussion)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 17/12/2025

maʕrifa meaning knowledge goes even way back to the 6th century.

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 16/12/2025

In SAr there are but a few words in فعلول (فنعول); could only find: طنبور زنبور عنجور (vocative) Modern loans: جندول (gondola) بندول (pendule) if you control for /n/ as infix (حرف زيادة), even less. Here السيوطي, المزهر on فعلول

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 16/12/2025

Can't get to the site but it says the same

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 15/12/2025

Moroccan Darija seems to have a word for 'splinter' patterned similarly (Harrell)

Moroccan Darija word for 'splinter' : šənquṛ
From Harrel's Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 14/12/2025

Corneliu Porumboiu's caper "La Gomera" ("The Whistlers" in English) gives a good sampling of the whistling technique

Poster of the film "La Gomera" by Corneliu Porumboiu

Poster of the film "The Whistlers" by Corneliu Porumboiu

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 19/11/2025

Rendered in Tamazight w/ *camel for bear :) bu-wbašir* g ṭṭobis ifsr-aġ-d almsir, almsir, almsir [...] a yaʕrinġ a Ṛbbi // han iširran g ṭṭobis da mzzin imndi [...] tizlfin n imndi d usngar Vocab: fsr: spread aʕri: good fortune iširri: kid mzi: grind imndi: wheat tizlft: ear asngar: sorgo

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 23/10/2025

But, but,... there is a Numidia, Pennsylvania ;)

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for Numidia, PA

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 12/10/2025

Words in the speech bubble: if you cannot live with little, you cannot live with a lot... satiety is in the heart... (slurp) turn your eye away from that which your paw cannot reach...

Picture showing a cherry stained wooden table with a a blue glaze plate with grilled hamburgers. At the edge of the table peeks the head of a dog staring intently at the plate. A speech balloon pointing at the head at the dog was added with words in Tamazight (Berber)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 04/10/2025

Both Moroccan Tmz & Darija have 'šəʕkūk' for 'bushy untidy hair' and '(a)xənšuš' for 'snout, ugly mug'. Ḥaḍ. has close relatives: > kaʕšūš : untidy hair > naxšūš: nose (in C. Ar 'gill, branchia') </>

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 04/10/2025

From 'Qāmūs al-lahža al-Ḥaḍṛamiyya', a few words: The word for water in Baby Talk in Moroccan Tamazight is: 'əmbuwwa' (same in Siwa, see Gutova). Ḥaḍ. has something very close: > ambūh, ambuʷh (?)

There is a lot of consistency and overlap across a wide area. Thus, some BT terms are shared between Siwa Berber in Egypt and Middle Atlas Tamazight in Morocco, e.g. (Siwa~Tamazight/Tarifiyt) fuffu 'fire, hot', deddi~diddi 'pain, it hurts', kexx 'leave it, stop, dirty', dadda~daddaš 'walk, toddle', ḅabu~appa
'bread', (e)mbuwwa 'water', etc. The distance between Central Morocco and Siwa is around 3,000 kilometres, and speakers of these languages have not had contact for many centuries. Yet, they have BT terms in common. Such terms are probably very old. At the same time, Maghrebian BT is not entirely homogeneous. Certainly, some BT items do not enjoy a wide geographical distribution, but are region-specific.

E. Gutova, BABY TALK IN BERBER AND MAGHREBIAN ARABIC, EDB 2015

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 30/09/2025

Locust in Moroccan Tamazight = tamurġi Darija = žžṛad A locust ranging from the Canary Islands to South Kazakhstan was named Dociostaurus maroccanus (thanks to Thunberg 1815). Attempts to rename it Mediterranean didn't stick: Ar. al-jarād al-murrākušī Pers. malaḵ-e marākeši Tur. Fas çekirgesi etc

Map of the range of the Moroccan Locust.
Source: A. V. Latchininsky (1998), "Moroccan locust Dociostaurus maroccanus (Thunberg, 1815): a faunistic rarity or an important economic pest?"

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 19/09/2025

There is a children's story (The Story of the Egg) told using fingers. It doesn't end with a life plan, but starts with an injustice and ends without a remedy (some get, some don't): dissembling, hierarchy of power, justice denied.

Michel Peyron, Contes et légendes de la montagne amazighe (Maroc), IRCAM, (2020)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 14/09/2025

2. 'collar (with hanging ornaments)'= ̣[t]asəddiy[t] (Taïfi, Azdoud, me :) PS: Meouak's translation needs to be amended: "... même d'un empan..." Meouak also cites Prasse & Alojaly, etc. : 'esəddi,...' (Aïr, Niger) </>

M. Meouak, Langue Berbère au Maghreb Médiéval, Foornote, p.346

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 14/09/2025

To explain the Ar. 'ribq': "rope with multiple loops for tying animals", Ibn Sallām al-Ibāḍi (d. 273/887) gives the Berber word 'tas[a|e]ddit' 'as[a|e]ddi iz'. The word still exists today in CA & SE Tamazight w/ the meanings of: 1. 'restraining rope for multiple animals'= asəddi (Taïfi) 1/

Ibn Sallām al-Ibāḍi, "Bad’ al-islām wa-šarā'i` ad-dīn", 1986, p.79

M. Meouak, Langue Berbère au Maghreb Médiéval, pp.345-346

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 08/09/2025

Numbers in Amazigh: A quinary number system (base five) recorded by M. Letourneux around the oasis of Souf (Algeria), before 1860.

A Berber base five number system collected by M. Letourneux around Souf (Algeria)

Source:
Notices sur les dictionnaires géographiques arabes, et sur le système primitif de la numération chez les peuples de race berbère / par M. Reinaud (1861)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 01/09/2025

There is a use that remains very close to this medieval usage, though the verb 'fsu' does not mean 'say, tell...' FSU: detangle, stretch, unravel (wool, etc.) From Haddachi: 'iwda ġif-nġ tfəssum awal' (stop spreading words (telling tales) about us) What is your source for medieval Tmz? Thanks

Definition of FSU in Haddachi's Dictionary of Tamazight

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 17/08/2025

Berbers seem to have been present in Kordofan (per H.A MacMichael and Newbold citing others (refs in ALT)): not just the Howara and Zaghawa, but also Zenata. MacMichael mentions also a toponym "Gebel el Zenáti' in Central Kordofán.🤷🏽‍♂️ < />

From H.A. MacMichael, The Tribes of Northern & Central Kordofán.

"The Tungur then may represent a mixture of Zenáta Berbers and their Arab conquerors, the Beni Hilál (not to speak of other Arab or half-Arab people that may have beenrepresented in the medley), and have migrated to Dárfur either direct from the north or else by way of Dongola"

D. Newbold "Some links with the Anag of Gebel Haraza" in Sudan Notes & Records, Vol VII, 1924

"Incidentally it is curious that no mention appears of this language, except in Cuny (op. cit.) 0 is quoted ٢ MacMichael (History. 0٤٤., Vol. 1, 1. 355) as mentioning “ Berbers" or "Dongolawi" from Debba inhabiting the hills of Northern Kordofan and speaking a "rotana" or "Dongola" corrupted by Zaghawa and Kungara."

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 17/08/2025

In North. Amazigh dialects the most common word for ‘sling’ is some variant of ‘ildi’. In Yeou, I came across another word ‘kungari’. He gives it as only occurring in the Figuig dialect. ‘Kungara’ (also ‘Konjara’) can be found as ethnonym in the former Kordofan province of Sudan and in Darfur. 1/

From Yeou, Dictionnaire Amazighe-Français - Parler de Figuig
KNGR
kungari n. masc. fronde, lance-pierre à deux lanières. Syn. ildey Pl. id kungari

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 13/06/2025

Friday bird bit: The Grey Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) in my backyard sounds sometimes like R2D2 on the fritz, others like it is doing some serious 'birdsplaining'. This morning I am renaming it "the filibuster bird"! abcbirds.org/bird/gray-ca...

Picture of a Gray Catbird on a naked branch with it is beak open

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 08/05/2025

V. Monteil, Contribution à l'étude de la flore du Sahara Occidental (T.2), identifies it as "Maerua Crassifiola" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maerua_...

Maerua crassifiola entry from Vincent Monteil's book "Contribution à l'étude de la flore du Sahara Occidental"

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 03/05/2025

It is mentioned in al-Išbīlī 'Ɛumdat ṭṭabīb', but no etymology though:

Screenshot from al-Išbīlī's 'Ɛumdat a-ṭṭabīb' describing a plant named al-gendūl (Calicotome spinosa)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 18/03/2025

If 'bahu' can be read as 'empty words', in Tamazight (CA & SE Morocco) there is 'abuhu' = 'hole, orifice, opening', which Naït-Zerrad links, through D. Cohen DRS, to 'bohū': 'vacuity, emptiness' from semitic root BHW/Y, which in ETH gives 'bāha' : 'to dupe' 🤷🏽‍♂️

BHW/Y, 1. CAN. h bohū "vacuité vide"; AR bahw- "espace dégagé, trouée, etc.", bahiya "être vide, désert", bāhi "vide, désert"

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 20/02/2025

Looking @ topography of North Africa's megalakes (postulated to have existed, details in ALT txt), it is not hard to imagine how Crocodylus succus (desert croc), Egyptians' sacred croc spread across NA: fossil records attest same species in Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Niger, Mali, Tchad...

Topography of North Africa overlain with reconstruction of proposed megalakes, other large paleolakes, rivers, fluvial fans, and megalake catchments: 1. Ahnet-Moudir 2. Chotts 3. Fezzan 4. Timbuktu 5. Chad 6. Darfur 7. Tushka 8. White Nile. Tushka megalake was proposed but a reanalysis shows there is little evidence for it (Source: The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands, (David Thomas ed.) Princeton Univeristy Press, 2024)

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