Congratulations, Erin! Wishing you both a happy life together! The wedding setup looks so beautiful❤️

Reference:

"Ebur, ivory, ivoire: ein meroitisches Lehnwort in europäischen Sprachen"

Found in:

Breyer, Francis. Schrift Und Sprache in Nubien: Studien Zum Napatanischen, Meroitischen Und Altnubischen. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. JSTOR,

www.jstor.org/stable/jj.20...

It's such a good show! I'm glad I follow your recommendations coz that's how I found out about Murderbot😆🥰

These look amazing Erin!😍

A bit off-topic, but I really wish the term "cushitic" had been reserved for languages of Kush like Meroitic. I'm guessing the classification is too entrenched now for a new designation?😅

* ⲡⲏⲣⲡ "wine"

The closest i could find 🐏📯

Now I'm starting to see ⲥⲩⲛ lol I wish there was a sharper image

I think the top one is almost certainly ⲑⲥ̄. And I suspect the partially smudged abbreviation below it is [ⲧ?]ⲩⲛ. But I'm not sure if τυν θεός makes sense here...

Translation of Greek text/nomina sacra:

'Martha, Mother of the King, [may he live] many years (πολλα τα ετη / polla ta etē)'

'The Holy Mary, God-Bearer, Mother of Jesus [the] Christ'

Left-side

ⲙⲁⲣⲑⲁ: Martha
ⲙ̅ⲏ̅ⲣ̅ (μήτηρ): Mother
ⲃⲗ̅ⲥ̅ (βασιλεύς): King
ⲡⲟⲗⲗⲁ ⲧⲁ ⲉⲧⲏ : '[may he live] many years'

Right-side

ⲑⲥ̄ (θεός: God
[?] ⲩⲛ: ?

ⲏ: The
ⲁⲅⲓⲁ: Holy
ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ: Mary
ⲑⲉⲟⲧⲟⲕⲟⲩ: God-Bearer
ⲙⲏ︥ⲣ (μήτηρ): Mother
ⲧⲭⲩ̄ (του Χριστού?): of Christ
ⲓ̅ⲥ̅ ⲟ ⲭⲥ̅ (Ἰησοῦς ὁ χριστός): Jesus the Christ

Left-side:

† ⲙⲁⲣⲑⲁ ⲙ̅ⲏ̅ⲣ̅ ⲃⲗ̅ⲥ̅
ⲡⲟⲗⲗⲁ ⲧⲁ ⲉⲧⲏ

Right-side:

ⲑⲥ̄
[?] ⲩⲛ
† ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲑⲉⲟⲧⲟⲕⲟⲩ
ⲏ ⲙⲏ︥ⲣ ⲧⲭⲩ
ⲁ
ⲅ ⲓ̅ⲥ̅ ⲟ ⲭⲥ̅
ⲓ
ⲁ

See also:

"A Nubian Linguistic Continuum in Medieval Sudan from Darfur and Kordofan to the Nile Valley" by Claude Rilly

[4th International Nuba Language Conference, Khartoum 2023]

Limited usage of [ essi ] is still attested in modern Nobiin:

[èssí] > 'soup'

[èskàléé, àskàléé pl. èskàlèènčìì] > 'waterwheel'

[mààɲéssí pl. mààɲèssìgúú] > 'tear(s)' lit. 'Eye-water'

ON ⲉⲥⲥⲓ is likely from Old Andaandi (Dongolawi).

Cf. Andaa./Matok. [essi]

ⲁⲥⲥⲉ also attested in ON texts but translating Gr. ὄμβρος 'thunderstorm, rain' & δρόσος 'dew'

ON ⲁⲙⲁⲛ (aman)
Polysemy: 'water/ river / Nile' is the most attested word in ON texts.

Cf. Nob. [ámán]

Proto-Nubian *es-ti > ON ⲉⲥⲥⲓ (essi): *st > ss (progressive assimilation)

Proto-Nubian *es-ti > (?) ⲉ̄ⲧⲧⲱ (ettō): *st > tt (regressive assimilation)

ⲁⲡⲉⲛⲧⲓ is cognate with Old Nubian ⲡⲉⲛⲧⲓ

cf. Nile Nubian languages: Nobiin [féntí],
Andaandi/Matokki [benti]

ⲉⲣⲡⲉⲕⲉ cognate w ON ⲟⲣⲡ
> -ⲕⲉ accusative case?

ⲁⲥⲕⲟⲩ is unattested elsewhere

ⲉ̄ⲧⲧⲱ cognate w ON ⲉⲥⲥⲓ < proto-Nubian *es-ti

Cf. Hill Nubian languages > Dilling [ɔti] ; Kadaru [ɔto]