Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article examines five enigmatic nouns from North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic and Neo-Mandaic, tracing their possible etymologies and semantic developments. These lexemes include bǝllaná ‘pocket’, derived from Akkadian abullu ‘gate’, which underwent a semantic change through the intermediary meaning of ‘aperture’. č̣ǝmmǝsta ‘louse nymph’ is linked to an innovative compound meaning ‘hair-taster’, reflecting imaginative lexical creativity. hawga ‘vapour’ originates from pre-modern Aramaic lahgā ‘vapour’, with phonological changes influenced by analogy. šandoxa ‘pestle’ or ‘grinding stone’ reflects a metaphorical calque on Akkadian kak madakki ‘tooth of the mortar’. Lastly, šǝwuyɔ ‘jackal’ evolved from a term for a planetary demon, highlighting semantic shifts driven by cultural perceptions. The study emphasises the roles of analogy, phonological change, and cultural context in shaping these lexical items.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".