ܐܢܚܢܢ

Classical Syriac

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *niḥnu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [(ʔə)naħnan]

Pronoun

ܐܢܚܢܢ • (ʾənaḥnan) c (singular ܐܢܐ)

  1. (personal, archaic, literary, formal) we
  2. (intensive, archaic, literary, formal) we ourselves

See also

References

  • “ḥnn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 27 June 2011
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 149a
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, →ISBN, page 60b
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