No single Nöldeke § claimed — his suffix treatment is distributed across several §§ in the noun chapter; not resolved here rather than guess one.
The rule below transforms the singular-suffix set (p023-1/-2) and attaches it to the status-emphaticus stem (p031-1's 'st. emph.' column). It does not name p044-1 (Peal-perfect-with-suffixes) — that is the VERB suffix set, a separate paradigm this page does not touch.
| letter | rule_text_en | printed_examples | prose_only | prose_note | dialect_variants | dialect_variants_confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | The appending of the suffixes presents little difficulty. The singular forms given in §23 (with ܪܶܥܝܳܢܳܐ, "mind" — Nestle's own carrier word for that table), when joined to the PLURAL of nouns, become the forms listed below (§23's singular-noun suffix set re-shaped for a plural stem: an extra -ay- glide appears before the person marker). | [{'seq': 1, 'form_voc': 'ܘ̈ܗܘܢ', 'translit_uncertain': 'ayhōn', 'gram_tags_proposed': {'person': '3', 'gender': 'm', 'number': 'pl'}, 'plate_note': "First of seven forms; ends in the waw-nun shape matching Nöldeke's 'their (m.)' ayhōn."}, {'seq': 2, 'form_voc': 'ܗ̈ܘ', 'translit_uncertain': 'aw(hi)', 'gram_tags_proposed': {'person': '3', 'gender': 'm', 'number': 'sg'}, 'plate_note': "Second form, shorter than seq 1, matches Nöldeke's 'his' aw(hi) in length and ending shape."}, {'seq': 3, 'form_voc': 'ܝ̈', 'translit_uncertain': 'ay', 'gram_tags_proposed': {'person': '1', 'number': 'sg'}, 'plate_note': "Third form, shortest of the seven, matches Nöldeke's 'my' ay."}, {'seq': 4, 'form_voc': 'ܟ̈ܘܢ', 'translit_uncertain': 'aykōn', 'gram_tags_proposed': {'person': '2', 'gender': 'm', 'number': 'pl'}, 'plate_note': "Fourth form, matches Nöldeke's 'your (m.)' aykōn in shape."}, {'seq': 5, 'form_voc': 'ܟ̈', 'translit_uncertain': 'ayk', 'gram_tags_proposed': {'person': '2', 'gender': 'm', 'number': 'sg'}, 'plate_note': "Fifth form, matches Nöldeke's 'thy (m.)' ayk."}, {'seq': 6, 'form_voc': 'ܢ̈', 'translit_uncertain': 'ayn', 'gram_tags_proposed': {'person': '1', 'number': 'pl'}, 'plate_note': "Sixth form, matches Nöldeke's 'our' ayn."}, {'seq': 7, 'form_voc': 'ܗ̈ܝܢ', 'translit_uncertain': 'ayhen', 'gram_tags_proposed': {'person': '3', 'gender': 'f', 'number': 'pl'}, 'plate_note': "Seventh form, before the final period, matches Nöldeke's 'their (f.)' ayhen.", 'examples_confidence': "UPGRADED 2026-09-02, re-cropped at 2.8x and matched against Nöldeke's confirmed 10-item\nplural-suffix set (§145, this record's own [noldeke_check] above). Nestle's 7 forms appear to\nbe a SUBSET of Nöldeke's 10 — omitting the two purely-feminine-singular entries (thy f. ayki,\nher ayha) and 'your (f.)' ayken, which is plausible (grammars often print only the persons\nwhose ending differs enough to need showing). gram_tags_proposed is a MAPPING PROPOSAL by\nshape/length correlation to Nöldeke's named set, not an independent glyph-by-glyph reading of\nNestle's plate — still short of the seyame-dot-level precision the house rule\n(reference_arabic-control-rule) requires before trusting fine pointing. Real upgrade from the\nprior state (pure unlabeled guesses); still proposed, not adjudicated.\n"}] | ||||
| b | With the suffixes the noun generally assumes the form of the status emphaticus, dropping the terminations ā and ē; no change occurs except where ease of pronunciation demands the insertion or restoration of a vowel, or a change in its position, especially before the vowelless and consonantal suffixes -y; -kem, -kem; -hōn, -hōn [reading uncertain, same caveat as (a)]. In the case of the masculines, in the above paradigms, e.g., the position of the vowel is shifted only in [form], compared with [form]. Insertion in [form], [form]; similarly in [form], [form] alongside of [form], [form]; in ... my burden from [form], [form], [form] etc. | True | This clause is illustrative prose citing forms already given elsewhere on the page (the printed text is dense with inline Serto examples not individually glossed); not re-transcribed cell-by-cell here — the RULE itself (status-emphaticus stem + suffix, with pronunciation-driven vowel shift) is the extractable content, per Wilson's steer. | |||
| c | Nouns from y-stems (e.g. gabyā "side", šelyā "rib"/"quiet" — Nestle's own examples) form the suffix of the 1st person as printed forms which the Jacobites pronounce gabī, šelī, and the Nestorians gabʰ, šel [Nestle's own Roman transliteration, printed in the plate — reliable, not a vision read]. With -hōn and -jem [reading uncertain]: [forms]; so also [form], but Nestorian [form], because in the status absolutus [form], which is, at the same time, the form with the suffix of the 1st person; in the same way [form]. In the plural of these words the radical y is sometimes dropped and sometimes retained: [form] and [form], [form] and [form]; [form] and [form]; with sub[fixes continuing onto p.35]. | True | Same treatment as (b): the exception clause for y-stem nouns is captured as English rule text with the four dialect-variant forms (reliably read, being Roman type) pulled out structured; the surrounding Serto examples are not individually transcribed. | [{'tradition': 'Jacobite (West Syriac)', 'form': 'gabī', 'noldeke_note': '1st person suffix on a y-stem noun'}, {'tradition': 'Jacobite (West Syriac)', 'form': 'šelī'}, {'tradition': 'Nestorian (East Syriac)', 'form': 'gabʰ'}, {'tradition': 'Nestorian (East Syriac)', 'form': 'šel'}] | HIGH — these four forms are Nestle's own Roman-letter transliteration printed in the plate, not a Serto vision-read. |
Portrait page, ordinary running text with inline Serto examples (not a landscape table like p043/p044). Read at ~1.9x two-half crop; the (a) example line re-read at 2.4x for this record.
Better than a confirmation — Nöldeke states the IDENTICAL rule ('the suffixes... coalesce
with the ai of the pl. m.') and gives a clean, fully English-labeled worked example ('judgment'
= dīnā) that this record's own rule.printed_examples (seq 1-7, all translit_uncertain) can
now be checked against directly, person by person, rather than left as unlabeled shapes.
Nöldeke's plural-suffix set, English-labeled, 10 persons (Nestle's plate only showed 7 — likely
a subset, not a different rule): my ay · thy(m.) ayk · thy(f.) ayki · his aw(hi) · her ayha ·
our ayn · your(m.) aykon · your(f.) aykon [orthographically, pronounced softer] · their(m.)
ayhon · their(f.) ayhen. This does NOT replace the seq1-7 entries above (those are still
Nestle's own plate, not re-transcribed) — it's an independent, confidently-labeled reference
set for whoever composes the noun+suffix paradigm downstream, exactly the kind of base table
base_records above pointed at. Recommend a follow-up: re-crop Nestle's p.34 example line at
higher zoom and match each of the 7 printed forms against this named set rather than guessing
sequence-position-to-person blind, the way this record currently does.