Tessera

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tamajeq / Tetserret : - ašu = ešb = drink ! - išwa = išba = he drank - iṣaṣṣu = ises = he is drinking - ad ašu = ad yešb = he will drink - teṣṣe = tšeši = drinking

Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.

Tetserret : - ifoš = he told - iffaš = he is telling - ad yofəš = he will tell, inform - ittəfaš = it was told, disclosed - təffəšt = the act of telling, praising - nəšfaš = information * This root FS is not common in modern Amazigh but its attested in the medieval dictionary of Ibn Tunart

Intenudas@izmarasan.bsky.social · 2w ago

These Tifinagh inscriptions are finely carved into the rock, and if we not paying attention we might not even notice them. There are probably many other inscriptions of this kind .

Tifinagh inscriptions from Moghrar Tahtani It's likely a name written twice : WNTƔZN Which could means : son of NTƔZN Or : the one of TƔZN

Tifinagh inscriptions from Moghrar Tahtani It's likely a name written twice : WNTƔZN Which could means : son of NTƔZN Or : the one of TƔZN

Correspondence Meaning : person , human being #Tamasheq : Awadəm #Tamajeq : Awedan #Zenaga : Aragaž , Aragah #Hassaniya : Aragaž #Tetserret : Afagan

The Tachelhit word Afgan and the Tetserret word Afagan that mean 'Human being , person' are ralated to this ancient amazigh word that means "to be slave" . A semantic shift similar to that of the Arabic word ɛabd

Vermondo Brugnatelli :
Some grammatical features of Ancient Eastern Berber (the language of the Mudawwana)

The word for Hyena >Tamajeq : Tazori > Tamasheq : Tašori > Tubu : Zoor > Hausa : kura

Tamajeq / Tetserret / Tadaksahak : - tukse = əkərora = korra = heat - təsməḍe = təšməddi = fufu = cold * əkərora and korra are probably related and maybe wonder if they could also be related to arabic الحرارة through the songhay . Arabic > Songhay > Tadaksahak/Tetserret ?

There used to be rhinoceroses in what is now the Sahara desert , and the people who lived there depicted them on stones !

The negative meaning of the name ibarkorayan is used even by groups who call themselves ibarkorayan because it has become a Tamajeq word , especially to scold their children when they do silly things .

Correspondence : - Meaning : Hangar , kind of tent #Tamajeq : Tafala #Tetserret : Təfilaw And "House" #Awjili : Tfilli

Intenudas@izmarasan.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Dasa project is a uranium mining project in northern Niger near Adrar Emoles, operated by SOMIDA , a joint venture between the Canadian Global Atomic Corporation and the State of Niger .

In Niger :

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From the Catalan Atlas, attributed to Abraham Cresques and his son Jehuda. You can see here the Emperor of Mali and a veiled Sanhaja

Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 4w ago

Tamazight / Tetserret : - asggʷas = šabbaš - lggʷaɣ = labba - zggʷaɣ = žobba

Why does ‘Dutch’ refer to the Low Countries, but ‘Deutsch’ to Germany? It’s because their ancestor denoted any vernacular continental West Germanic language. Only later did their meanings specify. Zoom in to read more – and to learn how ‘Teuton’, ‘Theodoric’, and ‘Derek’ are related as well:

Tamajeq / Tetserret : - Ammaṣ = Ammaš = the middle - Efe = Er = the edge - Tama = Tama = the side

Tamajeq/ Tetserret : - wen = won - ten = ton - win = wid - šin = tid - winden = winon - šinden = tinon