Thomas Wier

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Linguist & Caucasologist • Professor at the Free University of Tbilisi • Research languages of the Caucasus, the Tonkawa language • Author of 'Tonkawa Texts' • Weekly Georgian Etymologies Academic research: https://freeuni.academia.edu/ThomasWier

Examples of epenthetic consonants across languages. In cases like Old English þunor > thunder or Greek *amrotos > ambrotos, consonants have been inserted between a nasal and trilled consonant. This same context is acoustically unstable, and in some languages can lead to cluster simplification instead.
Robert Pattinson plays Antinous, an infamous suitor in Christopher Nolan's recent film version of Homer's Odyssey
The Louvre lion of Tish-atal and accompanying stone tablet bearing the earliest known text in Hurrian. The name means '[The god] Tish is strong'.
Around the world, around ~35 lgs have a glottalized lateral affricate [tɬʼ], often transcribed as <ƛ̣> in Daghestanian languages. If Kartvelian borrowed this root, it replaced *ṭq̇ for the sound it didn't have.
The 1926 Tbilisi Dinamo lineup
Form found in a 1921 Georgian-Russian technical dictionary
Cognate set between Georgian and Megrelian. In the Megrelian cognates, an epenthetic nasal consonant has been inserted into accented syllables (along sometimes with other sound-changes).
Students participating in hunger strikes as they demand for independence from the Soviet Union. Tbilisi, 28 November 1988.
Words on the left are modern Georgian forms with initial /m/ which lacked them in the source forms in Old Georgian or other languages, on the right.
Mosaic of fishermen from Leptis Magna
Ruins of Leptis Magna, along the Gulf of Syrtis (Sidra)
The Strait of Hormuz
From my paper "Expressive Constructions in Georgian and other Caucasian Languages": https://www.academia.edu/79834665/Expressive_Constructions_in_Georgian_and_other_Caucasian_Languages https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/006630
From my paper "Expressive Constructions in Georgian and other Caucasian Languages": https://www.academia.edu/79834665/Expressive_Constructions_in_Georgian_and_other_Caucasian_Languages https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/006630
The Harrowing of Hell, by 16th century Greek-Venetian iconographer Markos Bathas
Saint Queen Shushanik
Edible asphodel
Edible Asphodel
Gergeti Monastery is sometimes just above the cloud line in the Stepantsminda (Kazbegi) community.
The funeral service of Georgia's Patriarch Ilia II, who died this week at the age of 93.
17th century Georgian manuscript of the Shahnameh, including miniature illustration
15th century French chest from Provence
Antique wardrobe from Collector Tbilisi