A Syriac Chrestomathy

sources for syriacists

R4 · nestle-1889-en/r4/g167-men-men-particle

lemma

unvoc ܡܢ
voc ܡܶܢ
translit men
pos particle (Greek loan)
gloss_en indeed
gloss_de zwar
root
payne_smith
frequency_rank
layer vocalized Serto
greek μέν

primer_note

⭐ An ELEVENTH homograph pair, and the first in the shard separated by neither pointing nor part of speech but by LANGUAGE: ܡܶܢ the Syriac preposition and ܡܶܢ the borrowed Greek μέν, consecutive entries, identical to the point. The Greek is not a gloss here — it is the identification of a different word.

source

primer nestle-1889-en
page 167
leaf n256