A Syriac Chrestomathy

sources for syriacists

R4 · nestle-1889-en/r4/g169-nad-driven-about

lemma

unvoc ܢܕ
voc ܢܳܕ
translit nād
pos verb
gloss_en be driven about (a vagabond)
gloss_de umhergetrieben werden
root
payne_smith
frequency_rank
layer vocalized Serto

primer_note

Reads as an order break — ܢܕ after ܢܗܪ — until the root is supplied: the word is a hollow verb from ܢܘܕ, so it sits between ܢܗܪ and ܢܘܚ exactly as it should. Convention 2 in its mildest form: the spelling predicts nothing, the root predicts everything.

source

primer nestle-1889-en
page 169
leaf n258