A Syriac Chrestomathy

sources for syriacists

R1 · nestle-1889-en/r1/p023-2

category pronoun: personal, enclitic (after participle/adjective)
layer vocalized Serto
layer_source read from the plate
typography prose, not a printed table

noldeke

noldeke_qualifier Nöldeke treats the enclitics with the copula; Nestle raises them under the pronoun.

cells

gram_tagsform_voctranslitexample_vocexample_enprimer_noteuncertainuncertain_note
{'person': '1', 'number': 'sg', 'position': 'enclitic'}ܐ̱ܢܳܐܐܳܡܰܪ ܐ̱ܢܳܐI say
{'person': '1', 'number': 'pl', 'position': 'enclitic'}ܚܢܰܢḥnanܐܳܡܪܺܝܢܰܢwe sayNestle: the Curetonian Gospels still frequently write ܐ̱ܢܰܚܢܰܢ where the usual form is ܐܳܡܪܺܝܢܰܢ (both = 'ām(e)rīnan), 'but can hardly have any longer read anachnan or enachnan'.
{'person': '3', 'gender': 'm', 'number': 'pl', 'position': 'enclitic'}ܐܶܢܽܘܢ'ennōnAlso used, instead of suffixes, to express the object.
{'person': '3', 'gender': 'f', 'number': 'pl', 'position': 'enclitic'}ܐܶܢܶܝܢ'ennēnAlso used, instead of suffixes, to express the object.
{'person': '1', 'number': 'sg', 'position': 'enclitic', 'dialect': 'Nestorian'}ܐܶܢܰܘ'enauBefore enclitic ܗܽܘ / ܗܺܝ the å becomes a: ܐܶܢܳܐ ܗܽܘ > 'enau, 'it is I', among the Nestorians.TrueNestle gives the sandhi form in transliteration only; the Syriac spelling here is the extractor's, not the primer's.

source

primer nestle-1889-en
page 23
leaf n40

noldeke_check

date 2026-09-02
method tier-1, per SYRIAC-LANGUAGE-PILOT.md §5

noldeke_source

work Compendious Syriac Grammar (Crichton tr., 1904)
section §64
page 45
archive_id noldeke-compendious-syriac-grammar
leaf n80

result

CONFIRMED, and the existing noldeke_qualifier on this record turns out to be exactly right: Nöldeke DOES treat this under a different heading than Nestle (§64, 'Enclitic forms... coalesce with participles', worked as compound examples like qāṭel-nā 'I kill') rather than as a bare pronoun-form list. His worked example for 1sg literally shows the participle + -nā enclitic this record's form_voc = ܐ̱ܢܳܐ / translit = 'nā' already captured — the coalescence pattern matches directly.

tier2_caveat

1pl/3mp/3fp/Nestorian-variant cells not individually re-verified against Nöldeke's fuller plural conjugation table (same page, continues past this crop).