Now on academia.edu. Verb paradigms in Hittite infinitives present past imperative participles substantives here (click on the image):I have been learning Hittie for the past 5 months and I have fully mastered the language. Hittie is the first ever Indo-European language, from which Minoan Linear A, Mycenaean Linear B, ancient Greek, Latin and all modern Occidental languages are derived. Here is list of Verb paradigms in Hittite infinitives present past imperative participles substantives: Common verbs classified: + Linear A (LA=) + Linear B (LB=) + Greek (gr=) & Latin (la=) (where applicable) + English + français existence/creation: es = to be = la = essere = to be = English = is = français = être/es/est LB = eesi = they are gr = ei0mi essa/issa = to realize, do tahr? to be able to tarna = to let, allow; to abandon; to leave; to forgive; to let, put (a spoon in a liquid) huinu = to cause asas/ases = to sit = English = sit = français = s'asseoir LA = ase/asi = to sit, to settle, to put into ki/kikki = to lie down gr = kei=mai aniya = to act, create, work, achieve; ? to make grow (a plant) samn?i = to create, bring up, raise = English = to assemble = français = assembler give food: ad/ed = to eat + azzikk = to eat again + hassik/ispai = to eat until full = English = edible eku = to drink akkusk = to drink a lot life & death: ak/ek/akkisk = to die armaniya/irmaliya = to fall ill = English = harm dassanu = to make strong has = to open; to give birth (for a woman); to testify (for a man) huis/huisw?i = to live, to stay alive haddules = to recover maliskunu = to weaken = English = malaise = français = mal, malade, malaise ses/suppariya = to sleep, to fall asleep = English = supine teshaniya = to sleep, dream perception: uh/usk//sakuwai = to see usk = to see often istamas = to hear = English = to listen gr = i3sthmi = to stand expression: dariyanu = to call halz?i = to call, name + halzessa = to call , to name; to read = English = hail lamniya = to name; to call; to order; to assign, appoint mem?i = to talk, say; to announce = la = memoria = memory English = memory = français = mémoire talliya = to call, invite; to implore te/tar (2 infinitives) = to speak tarsik = to talk again, proclaim tarsikk = to say/speak/talk several times tekkus(sa)nu = to indicate; to show; to accuse = English = accuse = français = accuser gr = dei/knumi tekuss?i = to appear, show s?kiya = to declare gr = fa/skw tarkumm?i = to announce, report watarnah = to order; to entrust; to inculcate; to command, lead; to ask; to inform punus = to ask, to examine uesk = to implore = English = ask wek = to wish, ask, demand, claim = English = wish/ask LB = eukoto = he wishes wewakk(iya) = to ask again LB = eukoto = he wishes education: hatrai = to write = English = write LA = jatikutu = to write? handai = to add = English = hand/handle kupawi/kappuwar = to count = English = cut = français = couper sak/sek = to know = English = to seek annanu= to teach, educate ishiullah = to teach lazziya = to rectify, set straight LA = kireza? siy?i = to open (by pushing), push; to stamp, flatten; ? to draw; ? to seal; to cover with a seal = English = to seal gr = shmai/nw = to signify, mark, seal motion: uwa = to come ?nna = to drive; to receive; to come, hurry pai = to go gr = bai/nw = to go arr?sa p?war = to go d?la/d?liya = to leave = English = dally tiya = to move forward watkunu = to drive away, to dismiss huwai(huya) = to run, to flee = English = flee = français = fuir pars = to run, to flee = français = partir = je pars piddai = to run, hasten, flee + to pay = English = pittance LA = daipita = to lay, put, sit, pay as = to stay, to come to stay sakuwantariya = to stop, rest zenna/zinna = to end, finish; to settle, put an end to; to demolish husk = to wait istand?i = to remain, stay; to hesitate, wait, tarry = English = stand gr = i3sthmi = to stand ispart = to escape = la = evanescere = to disappear English = escape = français = disparaître kark = to disappear sanna = to conceal, hide maus = to fall waktu = to jump wahnu/weh = to turn up = to rise (the sun) = English = up action: dai/te/ti/tai = to put tittanu = to put, set. awan arha t. : to remove, withdraw tittiya = to put, set out ep = to grab iya = to do hark(iya) = to hold, to have + to collapse LA = apieke LB = oka + LB = ekee= to have + ekei = he has + ekonsi = they have d? = to take; to take as possession; ? to take for oneself + to decide in favor of s.o. huitiya = to pull hamenk= to attach, to link; to marry tarm?i = to attach, fix karp = to lift w?k = to bite, bite off = English = to whack duwarn?i = to break parsiya = to break LA = parosu la = to detach mark = to cut, distribute = English = mark LA = makarite, almost definite! tuhs/tuhhus = to cut; to separate (a girl from her lover) mat/maz/mazas = to support = français = mettre sarkuwai = to tighten wesuriya = to squeeze maninkuwah/maninkues = to shorten wete= to build + wetenu = to have sth. built, reinforced, fortified Linear B = wete = he works gr = e1rgon = work sarlai = to raise = la = sublevare = to raise = français = soulever taks/takkes/taggas = to gather; to implement, undertake; ? to found, buildLB = akere = to collect + LB = apeeke = to let go gr = ta/cij = arranging, putting in place, order, arrangement etc. zikk = to put several times has/hes = to open siy?i = to open (by pushing), push; to stamp, flatten; ? to draw; ? to seal; to cover with a seal = la = consignare = to seal = English = to seal gr = shmai/nw = to signify, mark, seal hatk = to close istap = to close; to block = la = subsistere = to stand = English = stop gr = i3sthmi = to stand less?i = to pick up = français = laisser karsanu = to omit kanes = to point out; to obtain, get; to find out, realize; to acknowledge, accept LB = dekasato = to be accepted harp?i = to pile, to heap = English = heap sarnink = to replace was/wes = to buy/to dress + wessiya = to dress arnu = to bring, to send; to address uwate = to bring uda = to bring; to cause (distress) LB = pere = to bring piya = to send uppa = to send piyanna = to give = English = pay = français = payer ussaniya = to give, sell piyan?i = to reward, give a present = la = dependere = to pay = English = pay = français = payer maniyahh = to give back pesk = to give several times dask = to take several times LB = dosei = he gives wemiya = to find sah/sahn = to search n?i/ne = to guide, lead; to turn sth. nann? = to drive, shove, push pehute = to supply assanu/asnu = to prepare/obtain = la = assignare = to assign = English = assign (absolutely the same word!) newah = to renew = la = novus = newb= English = new/renew gr = ne/oj = new pahs = to protect pahsanu = to ensure; to guarantee, protect; to strenghten, reinforce hap (Mid.) = to succeed wek = to require = la = egere = call for = English = require LB = weke = to work gr= e1rgon handalliya = to dare, risk mal?i = to approve markiya = to disagree agriculture & vessels/pottery: ahu(w?i) = to pour; to empty (a container) = English = wash LA = ra2sa (raisa?)/rua?/rujami? + lahu(w?i) = to pour; to empty (a container) LA = ra2sa (raisa?)/rua?/rujami? ishuw?i = to pour + ishuwann?i = la = effusus = pouring rain = to pour out = English = wash less?i = to pick up LB = resi? suhha = to pour suppiyahh = to clean parkunu = to cleanse; to excuse = la = purus = clean arra = to wash français = arrosser =to water hat = to dry = English = hot salliya = to melt (away), dissolve = la = (dis)solvi = to dissolve = English = dissolve m?i = to grow, blossom; to prosper + mid. miyari = he/she is born makkes = to become many, grow = la = maximus = the greatest = English = maximum/maximize = français = maximum salles = to grow, increase = la = salio = to spring, to jump, to leap LA = sareju? parkiya = to raise, grow; to remove; to flatter maknu = to multiply, increase, pile up = = la = maximus = the greatest = English = maximum/maximize = français = maximum mes (Mid.) = to grow, prosper = la = maxime = the most (adv.) = English = most uliliya = to grow, blossom ul?i = to unite, blend zanu/zeya = to cook sallanu = to make larger; to stretch; to raise, bring up = la = salio = to spring, to jump, to leap dankues = to get dark = la = obscurus = dark = English = dark LA = dakusene luk = to light; to set ablaze + middle = to brighten, get light = English = light maiszasti = to glow, shine = la = micare = to glitter teth?i = to thunder = = la = (in)tonare = to thunder = English = to thunder war/+warnu (set on fire) = to burn = English = warm wars = to wipe off, slip off; to pluck, harvest = English = wash wesiya/wisiya = to graze (trans.) military/government: tamas = to squeeze; to press; to attack, pester, force = English = pester dammesh?i = to damage, strike, punish = English = to damage = français = endommager dannattah = to devastate, ravage = = la = damno = to condemn, sentence, punish = English = to damage tarh(za) = to defeat, submit, conquer (with -za) harni(n)k = to destroy hull?i/hulliya = to fight = to topple (a decree) hullanz?in = to give battle harr/kuskus = to crush = la = fungere = to crush = English = crush kakkur = to cut, maim = la = caedere = to cut = English = cut gr = ko/ptw t?ya = to rob, steal; to abduct s?ruw?i = to plunder ispar = to spread; to cover; to crush, tread on = la = dissipare = to disperse = English = disperse = français = disperser, éparpiller gr = spei/rw = to sow, scatter, spread ninik= to mobilize hatkesnu = to bother, disturb; to attack, plague, press; to add h?ni(n)k = to injure, to damage, to hurt = = English = hurt wen = to harm hurna = to hunt hatukes = to worsen kuen = to strike, kill = la = caedere = to kill = English = kill gr = a0poktei/nw walh = to strike; to attack zah = to strike zahhiya = to fight walhann?i = to hit, beat hazziknu = to beat, hit, strike; to fight s.o. hazziya = to push, stab, strike pessiya = to throw, push, project; to dismiss, reject, abolish = English = push/press = français = presser hatt?i = to put to death; to cut off = English = hit hariya = to bury taksul?i = to be friendly, peaceful, tolerate each other; to sign a treaty hassuw?i/hassuizn?i = to govern as king emotional: dusk = to rejoice, be happy m?g?i = to complain = la = mugire = to rumble, groan ilaliya = to desire, envy nah = to fear uwai = to worry = English = worry wiya = to lament/wesk = iterative of wiya sa= to be angry waggariya = to be indignant, rebel = English = to wag indignant judicial/religious: ha = to believe walla/wallu = to glorify, praise; to pride oneself on sth. ariya = to study an oracle, ask an oracle =la =oraculum = oracle = Eng= oracle = fr = oracle azzikk = to adore (all the time) assiya = to love hahhars = to laugh = English = haha parkus/parkues = to become pure = = la = parcere = to spare, economize = English = pure = français = pur gr = kaqaro/j = pure + kaqai/rw = to purify warressa = to hasten to help = English = hasten hanna = to judge, decide has = to open; to give birth (for a woman); to testify (for a man) tuwadd = to have mercy, pity hanti tiya = to accuse wasta = to sin = English = waste idalawes = to become evil = la = idolon = a spectre = English = idol/idolize = français = idole/idolizer idalawahh = to behave badly = la = idolon = a spectre = English = idol/idolize = français = idole/idolizer huwap = to do evil huek = to swear (under oath) + to throw down = English = heck/heckle sull?i/sulliya = to argue, quarrel; to scold, rebuke = English = sully zammur?i = to offend, insult h?wart?- : to swear, curse link = to swear mald= to vow, swear wars/warsiya = to calm down (intrans.) Conjugations follow 35 pp.
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summer haiku d'été – how Mount Soracte = que le mont Soractehow Mount Soracte shimmers with snow – let's quaff our wine la neige miroitée sur le mont Soracte – buvons le vin come Monte Soracte luccica con la neve - beviamo il vino mons Soracte lucet nivi - bibamus vinum Richard Vallance Original Latin: Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte nec iam sustineant onus silvae laborantes geluque flumina constiterint acuto? Dissolve frigus ligna super foco large reponens atque benignius deprome quadrimum Sabina, o Thaliarche, merum diota. Permitte divis cetera, qui simul stravere ventos aequore fervido deproeliantis, nec cupressi nec veteres agitantur orni. Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere, et quem fors dierum cumque dabit, lucro adpone nec dulcis amores sperne, puer, neque tu choreas, donec uirenti canities abest morosa. Nunc et Campus et areae lenesque sub noctem susurri composita repetantur hora, nunc et latentis proditor intumo gratus puellae risus ab angulo pignusque dereptum lacertis aut digito male pertinaci. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE) Pronounce like Italian. painting by/ par Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875)
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The absurd fallacy of HERSTORY. There is no such thing in any language other than English, and in fact no such thing in English!
If there is anything which raises my hackles, it has got to be the absurd notion adapted by English language feminists alone that the word HISTORY is somehow gender related, when in fact it most certainly is not! English feminists who insist on changing the word history to herstory are displaying the most egregious linguistic ignorance. As anyone with even a smattering of higher education knows beyond a doubt, the English word history is in fact directly derived from the ancient Greek i9stori/a=, which means: inquiry, knowledge, information, science, narration and above all, a story. Now the sheer absurdity of the position of English feminists is blown wide open by the equivalent words for history in practically every other language, for instance, Dutch = geschiedenis, French = histoire, German = Geschichte, Italian = storia, Polish = przeszłość and Portuguese = história, to cite just a few examples. Any French feminist would laugh out loud at the notion that herstory is somehow the same thing as history, since in French the word for “her” is “son” (masculine gender) and “sa” (feminine gender). Of course, some allophone English feminists will scream aloud that “son” is gender-biased, without realizing in the least that gender in French, and for that matter in any and all inflected languages, including Greek, Latin, German, Russian etc. has nothing whatsoever to do with masculinity or, what is even worse, in their silly “intellectual” construct, sexism! The Dutch and German words, geschiedenis and Geschichte respectively, blow the English feminists’ ridiculous claim right out of the water, let alone the Polish przeszłość. I could cite hundreds of other languages, and the results would always be the same, to wit, the English word history has absolutely nothing to do with masculinity or sexism. So all I have to say to unilingual English feminists, “Get a life!” and at least swallow the truth with grace and dignity.
In the citations below, all italics are mine:
Consider Wikipedia:
Herstory is history written from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman’s point of view. The principal aim of herstory is to bring women out of obscurity from the historical record. It is a neologism coined as a pun with the word “history”, as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, which in their opinion is traditionally written as “his story”, i.e., from the masculine point of view.[1] (The word “history”—from the Ancient Greek ἱστορία, or historia, meaning “knowledge obtained by inquiry”—is etymologically unrelated to the possessive pronoun his.
And Rational Wiki:
“Herstory” is a neologistic term for “women’s history,” a variant of the Marxist “people’s history”; while a people’s history professes to reinterpret history from the perspective of workers and/or common men, a herstory professes to reinterpret it from the perspective of women. Most feminists don’t use it.
The term is an illustration of its coiners’ belief that regular history is heavily slanted toward men’s point of view, a “systemic bias” reflected in the term history, which they seem to have simply assumed was a portmanteau of “his story”.
Unfortunately, it happens that the English word history is a loan word, derived directly from the Latin historia, which is itself a loan word from ancient Greek.[1] On the other hand, the English word his is derived from a proto-Germanic root,[2] and is not in the least etymologically connected to the first three letters of history. They just happen to sound the same, and only in English. The origin of this term is a testament to the intellectual laziness of extremists in any field, who are quick to grab hold of anything that seems to support their point of view but reluctant to examine it critically.
and Reddit:
Also, I appreciate the title quote is somewhat playful. But I find it extremely irritating – ‘history’ is directly taken from the Greek word historia, roughly translating to ‘inquiry’ or ‘investigation’. ‘His’ and ‘her’ as actual words do not exist in Ancient Greek; words in the language meaning the same thing do exist. But the only reason ‘herstory’ is a thing is because it’s an awful pun based on the conventions of the English language which the word ‘history’ does not follow; it betrays a lack of knowledge of context, a tendency to jump on anything resembling ‘gendered’ words, and it’s a bad pun.
Je suis Charlie - in French, English & Greek + 11 modern languages & 3 ancient Greek dialects!I beg you, please be sure to RETWEET this, folks! As a polyglot Canadian, fluent in English and French, conversant with both modern languages and ancient, especially ancient Greek, with some 20 dialects under my belt, including Mycenaean Linear B & Arcado-Cypriot Linear C, I hope to reach not only everyone alive now, but as many of our ancestors as possible. I do this out of love for all the millions upon millions of people who have been slaughtered by warmongers, manaics, religious fanatics & terrorists, past, present and... God forbid... future! Je vous prie de tout mon coeur de faire des RETWEETs de ce message des plus urgents! Tout en étant canadien parfaitement bilingue, je suis également polyglotte, connaisseur de plusieurs langues modernes et anciennes, dont une vingtaine de dialèctes grecs tels que le mycénien en linéaire B et le chypro-arcadien en linéaire C. Dans ce but, j’espère communiquer ce message de solidarité bienveillante à tous ceux qui sont encore vivants autant qu’à tous nos ancêtres, dont d’innombrables millions qui ont perdu la vie, tous massacrés par des bellicistes, des maniaques, des fanatiques religieuses et des terroristes d’antan, de nos jours et... à Dieu ne plaise ... incontournablement à l’avenir. Richard Vallance Janke, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The Homophone HA, used less often than AI, but equally significant: Click to ENLARGE:This makes for entertaining reading, though possibly somewhat perplexing to some. Let no-one be under any illusion that the Linear B homophone HA is any less significant than AI, regardless of the fact that it appears less often in Linear B texts on extant tablets. The homophone HA is not a diphthong! This homophone (HA) takes an enormous leap forward, specifically and exclusively in the Linear B syllabary, by explicitly expressing initial or even internal aspirated A’s. This incredible achievement eclipsed even the ancient Greek alphabet, which, need I remind you, was always written in CAPS (uppercase) alone, and hence, was utterly incapable of expressing any aspirated, let alone, unaspîrated vowels. "What” I hear you indignantly explain, "Of course, they had aspirated and unaspirated vowels.” Yes, they did. But they never expressed them. Search any ancient alphabetical text in any dialect whatsoever for aspirated or unaspirated vowels, and you search in vain. Search Linear B, and voilà, staring us squarely in the face, is the aspirated A. Astonishing? Perhaps... perhaps not. But what this tells us unequivocally is that the ancient Greeks, even after the appearance of the alphabet, must have pronounced aspirated and unaspirated vowels, because in Mycenaean Greek, the aspirated A is squarely in the syllabary.
"But”, I hear you exclaim again, "If those Mycenaeans were so smart, why didn’t they also have a homophone for the aspirated E, which pops up all over the place in Medieval manuscripts in Classical Greek?” The answer is that Mycenaean Greek almost certainly had no use for the aspirated E, since all classical Greek words beginning with an aspirated E invariably begin with an aspirated A in Mycenaean Greek, as for instance, Mycenaean "hateros” versus classical Greek "heteros” (well, in most dialects, if not all). In other words, Mycenaean Greek grammar has no homophone for aspirated E, simply because they never used it, nor were they even aware of its existence. Still, the fact remains that, at least where the aspirated A is concerned, Linear B was one step ahead of ancient alphabetical Greek. Both aspirated and unaspirated initial consonants were a feature introduced into written classical Greek alphabet only in the Middle Ages, when monks & other scribes began making extensive use of lower case letters. And, sure enough, along with the aspiration and non-aspiration of initial vowels (most often A, E & U), they also introduced all those other crazy accents we all must now memorize: the acute, grave, circumflex and susbscripted iota, just to make reading ancient Greek wretchedly more complicated. Don’t you wish they had left well enough alone? I often do. But this was not to be, since from the Middle Ages, and especially from the Renaissance on, almost all Occidental languages (Greek & French being two of the worst offenders) used accents liberally. Apparently only the Romans never bothered with accents ... but even here we cannot be sure, as they too wrote only in CAPS (uppercase). Even English, which is the Western language most adverse to accents, always uses them in borrowed words from French, Italian, Spanish etc. So you just can’t win. Once again, amongst the ancient languages, at least as far as I know, Linear B alone was able to explicitly express the initial aspirated A, just as Linear B had the common sense to separate every word on the tablets from the next with a vertical line (|). After that, "something got lost in translation” (so to speak), and for at least 2 millennia, when all of a sudden everyone in the whole world went bonkers for accents. Such are the vagaries of linguistics. Richard