TY - JOUR
T1 - The Neo-Aramaic Verbal Root gšq 'To Look' and Its Middle Iranian Origin
AU - Mutzafi, Hezy
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The Neo-Aramaic verbal root gšq '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 gšq to be inherited from an earlier NENA layer, in which it was a denominative derivative of a noun akin to Mandaic gušqa '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.
AB - The Neo-Aramaic verbal root gšq '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 gšq to be inherited from an earlier NENA layer, in which it was a denominative derivative of a noun akin to Mandaic gušqa '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.
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U2 - 10.2143/MUS.133.1.3287658
DO - 10.2143/MUS.133.1.3287658
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AN - SCOPUS:85091431259
SN - 0771-6494
VL - 133
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Museon
JF - Museon
IS - 1-2
ER -