The Neo-Aramaic Verbal Root GŠQ ‘to Look’ and its Middle Iranian OriginLe MuséonSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/6TEX56MG/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.HezyMutzafiThe Neo-Aramaic Verbal Root GŠQ ‘to Look’ and its Middle Iranian Originhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/6TEX56MGhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/6TEX56MGhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/6TEX56MGLe Muséon133:1-220201-12The Neo-Aramaic verbal root <i>gšq </i>‘to look’, known since the 19th century to occur in the Christian NENA (North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic) dialects of Urmi and Salmas in Iranian Azerbaijan, has thus far remained without an established, or at least plausible, etymology. The etymology proposed in this paper considers <i>gšq </i>to be inherited from an earlier NENA layer, in which it was a denominative derivative of a noun akin to Mandaic <i>gušqa </i>‘spy’, a Middle Iranian loanword. This etymology is buttressed by parallel cases in Neo-Aramaic and other languages of the world as regards semantic changes and affinities between the meanings ‘to spy’ and ‘to look’, as well as similar processes of word-formation in NENA, namely denominative verbs derived from borrowed nouns and inflected in the neo-pa''el verbal pattern.
Mutzafi, Hezy. “The Neo-Aramaic Verbal Root GŠQ ‘to Look’ and Its Middle Iranian Origin.” Le Muséon 133:1-2 (2020): 1–12.
Hezy Mutzafi, The Neo-Aramaic Verbal Root GŠQ ‘to Look’ and Its Middle Iranian Origin,Le Muséon 133:1-2 (2020): 1–12.Modern SyriacSalamasSyriac languageUrmialexicographyloan-words [Persian]verb