A Syriac Chrestomathy

sources for syriacists

R4 · payne-smith-1903/r4/p605-tehomauncertain

lemma

unvoc ܬܗܘܡܐ
voc
translit thwm'
pos m. (Heb.)
gloss_en a) chaos, deep abyss, the bottomless pit; b) the depth, bottom of a well
root
printed_forms emph. with two plurals, the second marked '(rare)'; the plate's example is 'the pit of perdition'

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 deep, Lesson 1
uncertain yes

uncertain_note

Sense b) runs past the bottom of the crop; its wording ('the depth, bottom of a well') is from the scan's own OCR for this page, not plate-read. Sense a) is plate-read.

source

primer payne-smith-1903
page 605
leaf n620
archive_id compendioussyria00payn