#language: amharic

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[hemi-online]

Comic: Stay Safe in the Heat (Public Health — Seattle & King County)

PDF on kingcounty.gov | PDF on archive.org

2 pages Publication year unknown | Accessed 2025

Guidance for preventing heat illnesses during hot weather, especially for people who are at higher risk, such as outdoor workers, people with chronic health conditions, and children. This downloadable document can be photocopied double-sided.

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[gawrkin]

The Pendragons and their names

From time to time, I've investigated into the etymologies of the various names of the Arthurian legends, because a good chunk of Arthurian Material is poetry. So for a bit of fun, I try to tease out the meanings of the characters' names

Then I remembered that, in a number modern stories, writers use "Pendragon" as a dynastic/family name for Arthur and his relatives, even though Pendragon is actually an epithet that only two characters in the entirety of the Matter of Britain are known to bear that title - neither of which is Arthur - and it's mostly a kenning for "War Leader".

So let's humor ourselves and see what happens when you turn Pendragon into a last name and see what that technically means for certain characters.

The following comes from my personal interpretations from learning through online dictionaries. So forewarning, these are my speculations.

First, the "official" Pendragons from medieval sources:

Uther Pendragon: "The Dreaded War Leader", "The Horrifying War Leader" (From the Brythonic Uthr "Awesome, Terrible")

Gwen Pendragon: "The Beautiful War Leader" "The Holy War Leader" (From the Brythonic feminine Gwenn "White, Blessed")

Next are the presumptive Pendragons:

Arthur Pendragon: "The Bear(like) War Leader" (From the Pan-European Arkhtos, "Bear")

Morgan(a) Pendragon: "The Sea-born War Leader" (From the Bretonnic Morigenos, "from/of the Sea")

Mordred Pendragon: "The Moderating War Leader" "The Restrained War Leader" (From the Latin Moderatus, "Managed, Controlled")

Amhar Pendragon: "The Disgraceful War Leader" "The Harmful War Leader" (From either the Brythonic Amarch "Disrespect" or Amharu, "to impair, to disrupt")

Gwydre Pendragon: "The Glass-like War Leader" "The Glazing War Leader" (From the Brythonic Gwydr "Glass")

Llacheu Pendragon: "The Striking War Leader" "The Brilliant War Leader" (From either the Brythonic Llach "Lash" or Llachar "Bright, Shining")

Duran Pendragon: "The Enduring War Leader" (From the Latin Durans "Hard, Lasting")

Archfedd Pendragon: "The Compelling War Leader" "The Commanding War Leader" (From the Brythonic words Erchi "Request, Ask" + Gwedd "Appearance")

Melora Pendragon: "The Superior War Leader" (From the Latin Melior "Better")

[gingersnaptaff]

Do I find it funny that Arthur, in Welsh tradition, named his kids, Radiant, Impure/Injured, Chief Tomb, and Trees. Yes. Yes, I do.

[etymology-daily]

Etymology of the day

Beta

From Proto-semitic *bayt ("House"), through Phoenician 𐤁 (⁠bēt, Name of second letter of Phoenician abjad, from 𐤁���⁠ (bēt ,"House"), and Ancient Greek βῆτᾰ (Name of letter B))

Related descendant words:

Amharic: ቤተ፡��ርስቲያን (betä krəstiyan, "Church" lit. "Christian house")

Arabic: أَهْل البَيْت (Ahl al-Bayt, the family of the Prophet Muhammad, lit. "People of the house")

Akkadian: 𒂍𒀭 (bīt ilim, "Temple", lit. "House of God")

Hebrew: בית כנסת (bet knéset, "Synagogoue", lit. "House of Congregation")

[culture-and-relationships]

How to say I love you in your partners language - part 2

Albanian: Të dua

Amharic: እኔ ሆይ እወድሃለሁ (Ēnē hoyi iwedehalēhu)

Armenian: Ես քեզ սիրում եմ (Yes k'ez sirum yem)

Azerbaijani: Mən səni sevirəm

Basque: Maite zaitut

Bengali: আমি তোমায় ভালোবাসি (Ami tomay bhalobashi)

Bosnian: Volim te

Bulgarian: Обичам те (Obicham te)

Catalan: T'estimo

Cebuano: Gihigugma tika

Croatian: Volim te

Czech: Miluji tě

Danish: Jeg elsker dig

Estonian: Ma armastan sind

Filipino/Tagalog: Mahal kita

Georgian: მიყვარხარ (Mikvarhar)

Gujarati: હું તને પ્રેમ કરું છું (Hu tane prem karu chu)

Haitian Creole: Mwen renmen ou

Hebrew: אני אוהב אותך (Ani ohev otach [m. to f.], Ani ohevet otcha [f. to m.])

Hmong: Kuv hlub koj

We'll add more languages in the next posts. Ask if you want to add your own language or different phrases. We're always open to feedback!

[geoazie]

Aesthetic of the languages on earth : Amharic

Amharic is a Semitic language spoken by 57 million people in Ethiopia. It is an official language in Ethiopia.

[is-the-thing-actually-jewish]

Amharic and Ge'ez. Jewish or just something Jews use?

Rating: Not Jewish, but not not Jewish

Neither are a “Jewish” language the way Yiddish or Ladino are (though there may be community dialects, our search was a bit too surface level to be certain), but both are used by Jews.

Both are Semitic languages (as is Hebrew, though the former are South Semitic and the latter is West Semitic), of the Ethio-Semitic family. Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia, and its most spoken, as well as the language of the Amharas people of the region. The Ge’ez language (as opposed to the script, which is used for both) is an older language sometimes referred to as Classical Ethiopic by scholars, and is used liturgically by both local churches (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) and by the Beta Israel, the Ethiopian Jews.

(Can you tell I’m a linguistics geek?)

~Mod Shoshana

[parleplatina]

arabic/turkish nicknames for loved ones are too sweet, I want to melt

[linguistcaly]

Welcome to me writing unorthodox sentences in foreign scripts.

Day one - Amharic

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

የሉቃስ ወንጌል 23:34 እነርሱ ግን እንዲሰቀል በታላቅ ድምፅ አጽንተው ለመኑት። የእነርሱ ጩኸትና የካህናት አለቆችም ቃል በረታ።

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. — Luke 23:34a | Revised Amharic Bible (RAB) and Cambridge Paragraph Bible (CAMB) Revised Amharic Bible in XML (2003). Printed version by United Bible Societies (C) 1962 and The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version, by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose, 1813-1891. Published by Cambridge University Press. Cross References: Psalm 22:18; Matthew 5:44; Matthew 11:25-26; Luke 22:42; John 17:9; John 19:23

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Father, Forgive Them

[realityfragments]

Linguistic Oddities

I was sitting having coffee with a few friends, and of course the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel, with lots of civilians getting caught in the crossfire, came up. I mentioned it’s a problem no one seemed to want to compromise on, citing UN Resolution 181, and mentioning truthfully that it’s such a mess that it doesn’t seem like anyone was as right as they wanted to be. It’s a mess. I don’t…

[ssoupcup]

She's a 10 but her room looks like she's robbed an antique shop and she gamer rages at geoguessr

[jewfrogs]

Fave day by vibe alone?

the best day for it to be is friday! i know everybody says this but everybody is right on that count

however what i was thinking of in my mind with that was the names of the days in different languages, and on that metric its saturday, because

so many languages have variants of shabbat and i like what they do with the letters;

in early german languages most of the latin day names were calqued with comparable norse deities (e.g. dies iovis [day of jupiter] -> *Þunras dag [day of thor]) but saturns was not (dies saturni -> *Sāturnas dag [day of saturn]) and we dont know why (there are some theories but none of them are good/satisfying theories) which is a nice mystery;

some languages base the name on saturn the planet, such as japanese 土曜日 which is from 土星, a combination of 土 (earth/soil) + 星 (star), and i like that there is a day of soil; and

in some mostly scandinavian languages the name comes instead from the old norse laug[r] (e.g. danish lørdag), which means bath, so saturday is the washing-day, and—apparently completely coincidentally—the te reo māori name rāhoroi means the same thing

[wise-writer-girl]

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Learn Amharic

📣 Announcement!

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