New Aramaic Word Coined

Today, my daughter helped coin a new Aramaic phrase to use in time for the mushroom hunting season:

תרנגלא דחורשא

(More info here. :-) )

With the above, this would only follow naturally:

תרנגולתא דחורשא

(More info here. :-) )

But perhaps it might be better to swap things around a bit. In the mushroom world, there is the "Chicken of the Woods" (Laetiporous sp.) "Hen of the Woods" (Grifola frondosa) and what some people call the "Rooster of the Woods" (Meripilus sp.).

Since Galilean Aramaic really has no individual word for "chicken" (only "rooster" and "hen," the latter generally used for generically referring to the species itself as a whole) perhaps it might be better to refer to "Chicken of the Woods" as תרנגולתא דחורשא, "Hen of the Woods" under its other common name "Sheep's Head" which would make it something like ראשא דאימרא (the Galilean spelling of ריש is ראש) and reserve תרנגלא דחורשא for "Rooster of the Woods."

Or maybe one could even make it even more descriptive, dropping דחורשא ("of the woods") entirely and use a compound with ערדא ("mushroom") instead...

And it is here that I find I may be over-thinking the issue. :-)

Anyways back to work with me... .

Peace,
-Steve

The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Hacked

Yep, some punk thought they wanted to spread more malware, so they found an exploit somewhere on the bowels of the CAL server and uploaded some nasty files. Since Dr. Kaufman is out of the country, it's going to take until some time after May 25th (when he gets back) to get the entire thing sorted out.

This is the second major hack against the project this past year, and the last hack resulted in the old perl implementation of DJPA being pulled down indefinitely with no replacement. With so much 20+ year old code that's up there I'm yearning to get some of the new stuff I've written up and running; however, due to a funding shortage, the entire project is kinda puttering in place right now.

If you have any emergency lexical inquiries (i.e. things that cannot wait until the CAL is fixed), feel free to send them my way via email.

Peace
-Steve