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today's mood: leave everything, go live on the beach and become a sea witch, have a little cottage with big windows, draw strength from the waves, collect stones and shells and make from them amulets, swim under the moonlight and listen to sirens

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Kintsugi Witch

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Most insane place.... Greece

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Just to break it down:

The Tillo dialect of Arabic from Anatolia and the Arabic dialects of Central Asia and Khorasan

The Neo-Aramaic varieties of the Fertile Cresent, Caucasus, and Anatolia

Eastern Semitic and Western Neo-Aramaic

Northwest Central Semitic, Amurru Akkadian from the Amarna Letters, and Cypriot Arabic

South Arabian, Sayhadic, and various Arabic dialects of Southern Arabia

Yemenite Hebrew, Soqotri, and various Arabic dialects of Western Arabia

North Afrosemitic, Afro-Sabaic, Central Transversal Afrosemitic, and Harari

Outer South Afrosemitic and Eastern Transversal Afrosemitic

Various Arabic dialects of the Sahel

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On the topic of roots shown:

Soqotri [riho] is derived from the verb ‘irrigated’ which in some languages, such as Syriac, can also mean ‘to drink’.

Shehhi Arabic, Nigerian Arabic, and Chadian Arabic all show a fusion of the definitive article [ʔal-] with the morphological root for ‘water’.

South Afrosemitic, besides Eastern Transversal, has two distinct roots for water that are not found in the rest of Semitic. As to their origin is up for debate, but various linguists have suggested Cushitic cognates albeit the explanation for such is relatively hard to justify. Although only really found in one dialect of the language, Argobba does have [ʔofa], which does have wider cognates throughout Afroasiatic that are typically semantically ‘rain’.

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Enjoy the ocean by ryanpernofski

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AMYMONE

In Greek mythology, Amymone was one of the Danaides. The family emigrated from Libya to Argos in the Greek Peloponnese but arrived to find a land parched by drought. Her father sent his daughters out in search of water and in the course of her wanderings Amymone came upon Lerna where she was seduced by the god Poseidon. As a reward he caused a spring of water to gush from the earth, relieving the Argive drought.