A Syriac Chrestomathy

sources for syriacists

R4 · nestle-1889-en/r4/g184-qurqodrys-crocodileuncertain

lemma

unvoc ܩܘܪܩܘܕܪܝܣ
voc ܩܽܘܪܩܽܘܕܪܺܝܣ
translit qūrqūdrīs
pos noun
gloss_en crocodile (glossed only by the Greek)
root
payne_smith
frequency_rank
layer vocalized Serto
greek κορκόδειλος

primer_note

⭐⭐ THE CROCODILE, TWICE, SIXTEEN PAGES APART, AND NEVER LINKED. p. 168 opens the ܢ section with 'ܢܐܦܘܬ = äg. νεφώθ = gr. κροκόδειλος' — a three-language chain tracing an Egyptian word. Here the SAME animal is a straight transliteration of the Greek, glossed by the Greek alone. Note also that Nestle spells the Greek differently in the two places, κροκόδειλος there and κορκόδειλος here. The ܦܶܣܚܳܐ/ܦܶܨܚܳܐ shape (p. 180) again: two words, two etymologies, two correct slots, one animal.

uncertain yes

uncertain_note

Nine glyphs read against κορκόδειλος at 1.75×; the vowel points are not resolved and the transliteration is reconstructed from the Greek.

source

primer nestle-1889-en
page 184
leaf n273