A Syriac Chrestomathy

sources for syriacists

R4 · payne-smith-1903/r4/p538-rhepuncertain

lemma

unvoc ܪܚܦ
voc
translit rḥp
pos verb, Pael
gloss_en to brood, hover over; to cherish, pity, take care of (with ܥܠ)
root ܪܚܦ

printed_forms

the head prints the bare root, then 'Pael' with its own form; the plate's example continues into the Genesis 1:2 brooding-Spirit phrase

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 hover, Lesson 1
uncertain yes

uncertain_note

The Genesis 1:2 citation ('the Spirit of God brooded upon the face of the waters'), which is why Lesson 1 wants this word, runs past the bottom of the crop and was seen only in the scan's own OCR text for this page, not on the plate.

source

primer payne-smith-1903
page 538
leaf n553
archive_id compendioussyria00payn