00:3600:36, 15 June 2024diffhist+71
Hummus
Moved the claim about the alleged appearance of "ḥummuṣ" in the Bible towards the end of "Etymology and spelling". Also reworded "which can be derived from [...]" > " which they derive from supposedly from", considering Hebrew ḥimṣā "chickpea" & its cognate Aramaic ḥumməṣā / ḥimməṣā are from root ḥ-m-ṣ Hebrew ḥomeṣ "vinegar", Jewish Literary Aramaic ḥūməʕā, & Arabic ḥāmiḍ are derived by two linguists from another root ḥ-m-ṣ̂
16:0416:04, 10 June 2024diffhist+1,856
White Army, Black Baron
→History: Added sources about possible source for the melody. Compare the melody sung to the words "vehres hot nor ungegrait" (in DZmK) to that sung to "свой штык мозолистой рукой" (in WABB)
14:5314:53, 25 May 2024diffhist−97
Károly
Removed unsourced claim, which is also unlikely to be true: Common Turkic or Proto-Turkic root meaning "falcon, hawk" is reconstructed as *kārt- (sources: Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages). Expected Hungarian reflex would have been something like **kVrtVl with -t- retained, not lost; compare Hg. gyertyas "candle", from Turkic *yarta > Chuvash ҫурта śurt̬a.current
15:0415:04, 23 May 2024diffhist+18
Antisemitism
→Etymology: After downloading Marr's "Der Weg zum Siege [...]" from https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/titleinfo/177482 & skimming it, I only found "S/semitische(n/r)", "antisemitische(s)", "Semitismus", "Semit(en)", "night-semitische Element", "Anti-Semiten-Liga"; not one instance of "Antisemitismus" / "Anti-Semitismus" or its possible declensions. So added fv
17 May 2024
11:5611:56, 17 May 2024diffhist+1,501
Volga Tatars
→History: Added Pow (2019), a source for the claim that "The majority of Volga Tatars (Tatars and Mishars) are usually thought to be descendants of either the Kipchaks of Golden Horde", copy-pasted from article Tatars
17:0517:05, 13 May 2024diffhist+20
A Red, Red Rose
→Traditional: Added fv. When read in context, McCue's claim "Its unusual choice of metre often places the emphasis on the ‘wrong’ words, particularly in the penultimate line of the second stanza" (p. 72) describes "Urbani's melody", not Gow's "Major Graham"
14:4514:45, 17 April 2024diffhist+373
Togarmah
→Jewish traditions: Added some information. I speculate that the Kanbina ([כנבינ[א) / Ragbib / etc. might be a scribal error for Kwṣgyr (כוצגיר), i.e. Kotzagir, a people who fled, along with the Tarniach & Zabender to the Avars from the Turks
13:4813:48, 23 March 2024diffhist+771
King You of Zhou
→In literature: The story about "King You lighting up the warning beacons to make Bao Si smile" is found in Shiji, not Zuo Zhuan, which merely quotes the anti-Bao-Si criticism found in the minor court hymn "正月 - Zheng Yue"