https://teammaha.com/2019/06/%d8%a8%d8%af%d9%88-biddo/ Poking fun at the language of your favorite chronically lonely Egyptian Sat, 18 Feb 2023 11:19:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.32 https://teammaha.com/2019/06/%d8%a8%d8%af%d9%88-biddo/#comment-324 Sat, 01 Jun 2019 18:32:57 +0000 http://teammaha.com/?p=1546#comment-324 My favourite illustration of bidd- indicating futurity is from Blanc’s 1953 study of Druze dialects of the Galilee: kull insān baddu yimuwt ‘Every person will die’. It obviously does not mean ‘want’ in this sense!

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