A Syriac Chrestomathy

sources for syriacists

R4 · payne-smith-1903/r4/p329-nahirauncertain

lemma

unvoc ܢܗܝܪܐ
voc
translit nhyr'
pos subst. m. (as adj. see under ܢܗܪ)
gloss_en light, a light, luminary, said of the sun, moon, stars
root ܢܗܪ

printed_forms

abs., emph. and f. printed; the plate's examples include 'the lights of heaven' and 'light and perfection, i.e. Urim and Thummim'

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 luminary, Lesson 3
uncertain yes

uncertain_note

The gloss line is plate-read, but the headword line itself sits at the top of the column and was captured only in the scan's own OCR text, not in a legible crop. The lemma ܢܗܝܪܐ is therefore confirmed by root + gloss + alphabetical position rather than by a direct look at the printed headword.

source

primer payne-smith-1903
page 329
leaf n344
archive_id compendioussyria00payn