A Syriac Chrestomathy

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R1 · nestle-1889-en/r1/p043-1

lexeme

unvoc ܩܛܠ
voc ܩܛܰܠ
translit qṭal
gloss_en kill
category verb: Peal perfect, bare (no object suffix)
layer vocalized Serto
layer_source read from the plate (section default agrees)
noldeke_qualifier Nestle's own § is 38; no confident Nöldeke cross-reference chosen, left blank rather than guessed.

cells

gram_tagsform_voctranslituncertainuncertain_note
{'person': '3', 'gender': 'm', 'number': 'sg'}ܩܛܰܠqṭal
{'person': '3', 'gender': 'f', 'number': 'sg'}ܩܶܛܠܰܬ݂qeṭlaṯ
{'person': '2', 'gender': 'm', 'number': 'sg'}ܩܛܰܠܬqṭalt
{'person': '2', 'gender': 'f', 'number': 'sg'}ܩܛܰܠܬܝqṭalt(y)
{'person': '1', 'number': 'sg'}ܩܶܛܠܶܬ݂qeṭleṯ
{'person': '3', 'gender': 'm', 'number': 'pl'}ܩܛܰܠܘqṭalw
{'person': '3', 'gender': 'f', 'number': 'pl'}ܩܛܰܠ̈qṭal(āy)True3fp perfect has known dialectal/orthographic variation (qṭalāy vs. an unmarked qṭal with seyame only); the plate's seyame dots at this cell were not resolved with confidence.
{'person': '2', 'gender': 'm', 'number': 'pl'}ܩܛܰܠܬܽܘܢqṭaltōn
{'person': '2', 'gender': 'f', 'number': 'pl'}ܩܛܰܠܬܶܝܢqṭaltēn
{'person': '1', 'number': 'pl'}ܩܛܰܠܢqṭaln

source

primer nestle-1889-en
page 43
leaf n60

plate_note

Portrait page (not rotated, unlike p044's leaf n61). Full §38 grid: Perfect / Imperfect / Imperative / Infinitive / Participle (active+passive) × Peal/Pael/Aphel, each stem-triad stacked Peal(top)/Pael(middle)/Aphel(bottom, below a rule line, Aphel's ا-prefix visually sets it apart). This record transcribes only the Perfect row's Peal cells. Read via multiple tiled crops at 2.6x-3.2x; header-to-column alignment confirmed for the Plural half (labels '1c 2f 2m 3f 3m' printed directly above the data), taken on faith by lexeme-shape-length matching for the Singular half where the crop did not capture the header row in the same frame.

noldeke_check

date 2026-09-02
method tier-1, per SYRIAC-LANGUAGE-PILOT.md §5 — collated against Nöldeke's own printed Regular Verb paradigm

noldeke_source

work Compendious Syriac Grammar (Crichton tr., 1904)
section §168
page 109
archive_id noldeke-compendious-syriac-grammar
leaf n144

result

CONFIRMED — Nöldeke's §168 paradigm uses the SAME lexeme (qṭal) and matches this record's cells closely in shape and pattern for all ten. The 3fp cell already flagged uncertain above is exactly the one cell where Nöldeke's own plate prints two dialectal variants side by side — his table independently corroborates that this cell is genuinely variable, not a reading error on this record's part.

tier2_caveat

Confirmation is at the shape/pattern level (person, number, general vocalization pattern), not a stroke-by-stroke diacritic diff against Nöldeke's plate — still short of a human Syriacist's adjudication.