تَنْفيس root: ن-ف-س / form II verbal noun / definition: catharsis Someone told me yesterday that I seem to do a lot of work without much financial return. Exhibit A: this blog. But this passion project doesn’t feel like work in any sense of the word. Except for the part where I spend hours planningContinue reading “Arabic Prepositions: Common and Less So”
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Prepositional Interrogatives: When Does عَمّا Become عَمَّ?
بَوصَلة root: ب-و-ص-ل / noun / plural: بَوصَلات / definition: a compass I wonder if it means anything that “time” is ud in Sumerian and öd in Göktürkçe. Then I think back to my friend telling me that the ancient Egyptians associated east with this life and west with the afterlife; and language and cultureContinue reading “Prepositional Interrogatives: When Does عَمّا Become عَمَّ?”
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