Abstract
Galilean Arabic preserves an array of agriculture terminology which has ancient cultural roots, some dating to Biblical times, others found in Semitic languages that infiltrated this region in the course of time. Presently the Galilee region is experiencing rapid language change for several reasons: some concern modernism, others the influence of Hebrew. These processes threaten an enormous display of vocabulary with obsolescence. The article probes for the etymological roots of an ancient agriculture apparatus, the threshing-board, which belongs to the research region and has several diferent lexemes. This research shows that the various etymons of this tool belong to a wider agriculture circle of agricultural terminology. Timeliness is of the essence with the collection of the region's agricultural vocabulary to repel the grave danger of obsolescence.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 125-134 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft |
| Volume | 168 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The data of this article is also based on fieldwork pursued by Peter Behnstedt in the very traditional agricultural Christian-Arab Galilean village of Míʿilya as part of a project financed by the GIF (German-Israeli Foundation) 20 years ago in which I also took part. Behnstedt recorded a peasant on the theme of “threshing-board”, a text that sheds light on the technical aspects of this device.8
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- History