A Syriac Chrestomathy

sources for syriacists

R4 · payne-smith-1903/r4/p019-aminuncertain

lemma

unvoc ܐܡܝܢ
voc
translit 'myn
pos adv. (Heb.; rt. ܐܡܢ)

gloss_en

Amen, verily; a) used at the beginning of a sentence for emphasis or solemnity; b) at the end of a sentence to signify assent, 'so be it, amen'; c) subst. general consent, unanimity, agreement, assent, concord

root ܐܡܢ
printed_forms single headword form; senses b) and c) were read from the page's OCR layer, not from the plate crop

layer

printed Serto (West Syriac letterforms), pointed; points present on the plate but not transcribed — see vocalization_note

vocalization_note

Payne Smith prints this entry in Serto with vowel points, and the points ARE visible on the plate; they are deliberately NOT transcribed here. The project has no control table for this typeface's pointing (the MUFI lesson: never read diacritic codepoints by eye), so voc is left empty and translit is CONSONANTAL ONLY. The consonantal skeleton, the part-of-speech tag and the English gloss are read directly off the plate and are reliable; the vocalisation is the open item for a reader who can control it.

fills_gap_for amen, Lesson 6
uncertain yes

uncertain_note

Senses a) is plate-read; b) and c) run past the bottom of the crop and were taken from the scan's own OCR text for the same page. Flagged rather than presented as a plate reading.

source

primer payne-smith-1903
page 19
leaf n34
archive_id compendioussyria00payn