A Syriac Chrestomathy

sources for syriacists

R4 · nestle-1889-en/r4/g164-lek-foolishuncertain

lemma

unvoc ܠܟ
voc ܠܳܟ
translit lāk
pos adj.
gloss_en silly, foolish
gloss_de thöricht
root
payne_smith
frequency_rank
layer vocalized Serto
uncertain yes

uncertain_note

⛔ Two glyphs only, and the extractor cannot name the word. At 3× the reading is lamadh + a long down-left stroke — final kaph, but final alaph has the same direction in this face — under a caret-shaped point read as zqapa. Slot (between ܠܚܫ and ܠܠܝ) admits ܠܟ or ܠܝ; no standard word of either shape glossed 'foolish' is known to the extractor. Recorded as printed, flagged for the Syriacist. Convention 5's spirit: no plausible lemma invented to fill the hole.

source

primer nestle-1889-en
page 164
leaf n253