CH.07-0001-02.01

Siglum: CH.07-0001-02.01
Transliteration: l ʾdʿn bn zd bn ʾdʿn w dʿ<ʿ> w ḏkrt lt yqm
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Translation: By ʾdʿn son of Zd son of ʾdʿn and may Lt call and remember Yqm
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Language and Script: Hismaic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: DISCUSSION Hani Hayajneh (2009: 211–212): "The verb appears in our inscription as dʿʿ (with ʿayn repeated twice. It could be presumed that we are dealing here with a scribal error committed by the writer. However, we should consider the possibility that it represents another morphological form, i.e. the suffix conjugation of the second stem daʿʿā (faʿʿala) of the root dʿw; or it could be a tafaʿʿala-form, pronounced as *iddaʿʿā (from *itdaʿʿā), and written as dʿʿ. In the latter case, the initial vocalic affix *i- is not represented in the script, while the prefix *t- is assimilated to the following dāl, since both sounds are dental.As a third explanation, we could treat the word as a normal suffix conjugation, i.e. dʿʿ against daʿā, as in Safaitic ġzz against ġazā (Macdonald 2004: 510)".

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[HANA.Saf] Hayajneh, H. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 756-781 in S. Weninger (ed.), The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook. (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikations-wissenschaft, 36). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Macdonald, M.C.A. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in R.D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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