A Syriac Chrestomathy

sources for syriacists

R4 · nestle-1889-en/r4/g194-thuma-border

lemma

unvoc ܬܚܘܡܐ
voc ܬܚܽܘܡܳܐ
translit tḥūmā
pos m.
gloss_en border, frontier
gloss_de Grenze
root
payne_smith
frequency_rank
layer vocalized Serto

primer_note

⚑ A twenty-second homograph in near-neighbours: ܬܗܽܘܡܳܐ 'depth' four entries above and ܬܚܽܘܡܳܐ 'border' here differ by one letter, both are ܬ-preformative abstracts, and the two German glosses ('Tiefe', 'Grenze') are the reader's only handhold.

source

primer nestle-1889-en
page 194
leaf n283