Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

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Most of you have probably heard me wibbling before about Punic—Carthaginian—names, about how, having been dragged through a linguistic hedge backwards, most people don't realise from them that the language is Semitic, and very closely related to Biblical Hebrew.

Now [livejournal.com profile] papersky is wanting to write a book with Carthaginians in it, needs Punic names, and thinks I can help. ("Come on, pleeeeease write me a Carthaginian baby name book! You know you don't have anything more exciting to do this morning!" :o)) Problem is, I'm good at Biblical Hebrew, less good at Phoenician, and know very little about Punic, which diverged somewhat from the parent language. (As I pointed out, I can just about understand name meanings in it, like I would imagine [livejournal.com profile] papersky (who is Welsh) would names in Gododdin (i.e. the P-Celtic-speaking kingdom in present-day Scotland, not the work in Welsh).

So, can anyone help with names in Punic (beyond citing appropriate books to read)?

My other question concerns Meleagros's:
So if you are Syrian, Salam, if you are Phoenician,
Naidios, and if you are Greek, Chaire—say the same.
I wonder where naidios comes from; what its cogates (if any) in Hebrew are. It's odd; I would expect it to be salām or something like it; after all, the Syrians of that era were Phoenician (I think); and one theory of the origin of the name Salamis (the island off the coast of Attica) is that it comes from the Phoenicians for "peace".

Bah! (Firefox)

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 10:17 pm
lethargic_man: (serious)
Bah, my Firefox at work has updated itself, to v. 1.5.0.4, and now local file: links no longer work. I'd previous got them to work by following the instructions here, but with this update they stopped working, which is a right pain in the posterior, because I use a home page chockablock full of links in preference to bookmarks.

Anybody know how to sort this out before I contact Mozilla?

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