RT Article
T1 Neo-Mandaic as a Source of Hitherto Unattested Mandaic Words
JF Aramaic studies
VO 15
IS 1
SP 112
OP 124
A1 Mutsafi, Ḥezi 1968-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1561965510
AB Neo-Mandaic (NM) is the least known Neo-Aramaic language, despite recent progress in investigations of its grammar and lexicon. Lexicographical coverage of NM is still particularly replete with lacunae, as many of the language’s lexical items and lexical peculiarities remain beyond common scholarly knowledge. The present contribution discusses several hitherto unknown or misrepresented NM lexemes. Ten of these are inherited from pre-modern Mandaic antecedents that are, as far as can be established, not manifest in classical and post-classical Mandaic textual sources. Most of these inherited lexical items are of Aramaic origin, whereas a few are of ultimate Iranian provenance.
K1 Neo-Mandaic (NM) : pre-modern Mandaic : inherited lexical items : lexical cognates : Iranian loanwords
DO 10.1163/17455227-01501007