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Классический сирийский язык
С. 562–625.
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Loesov S., Kogan L., Lyavdansky A., Markina E. Институт языкознания РАН, 2009.
Cherkashina A., Lyavdansky A., Rashid D., , in: From Moscow to Baghdad: Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov.: Brill, 2026. P. 389–455.
This article explores examples of influence from the Arabic magical traditions, both Christian and Muslim, that can be found in modern Syriac magical manuscripts. The following aspects of Arabic influence are discussed: visual elements (diagonal writing, kharaktēres, pseudo-Arabic script), terminology, texts containing Arabic formulae, magical practices, angels and demons (Gabriel and Michael, Tebʿā), and magic ...
Added: May 1, 2025
Balakhvantsev A., Kogan L., Lyavdansky A. et al., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2022 Vol. 82 No. 4 P. 911–940
The authors publish a hitherto unknown squeeze made from a North West Semitic inscription. The squeeze originally belonged to the Russian Archeological Institute in Constantinople and is now hosted by the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The inscription, performed in relief, may have been made on a large ...
Added: December 24, 2022
Cherkashina A., Lyavdansky A., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2022 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 22–48
The first part of the inquiry on Syriac love charms was devoted to the recipe-type
charms. This article edits four more Syriac love charms, which are attributed to the so-called prayer-type. The special features of this type of Syriac love charms are addressed and compared with that of the recipe-type texts, edited in Part I. The ...
Added: December 17, 2022
Cherkashina A., Cherkashin D., Saar O., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2022 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 49–84
This article considers a text-unit known in five Syriac codices and consisting of up to
three magical recipes. The target of all these recipes is a mill: two of them are curses
(ˀassārā ‘binding spell’) and intend to stop the mill, while the third one is a counter-spell
(šeryānā ‘loosening spell’), which aims to annul the curse. One ...
Added: October 29, 2022
Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 1 P. 337–351
Suffix conjugations (SCs) of East and West Semitic may not be traced back to the same verb form in Proto-Semitic. Rather, they evolved separately, by way of a ‘common drift’ in the two branches of Semitic. This is demonstrated, in particular, by a crass contrast, both in forms and diathetic meanings, between the SCs of ...
Added: October 15, 2022
Kalinin M., Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 2 P. 471–516
In Proto-Aramaic, the passive of transitive verbs belonging to all three principal stems—G, D and C—was formed internally. Some verbs of the G- and D-stems also possessed detransitive derivatives. Transitive verbs of the G-, D- and C-stems lost their internal passives early on, and the passives of G- and D-verbs were encoded by their respective ...
Added: October 15, 2022
Cherkashina A., Lyavdansky A., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2021 Vol. 17 P. 68–91
In this paper we consider 6 Syriac love charms and edit their original text and translation. All but two texts are published here for the first time. This is the first part of our inquiry, in which we consider one of the two types of Syriac love charms, the recipe-type. Among its primary characteristics is ...
Added: July 9, 2021
Bulakh M., Acta linguistica Petropolitana 2020 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 677–720
The paper gives a survey of verbs of falling in Tigrinya (an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia). The employment of each verb related to the situation of falling down is illustrated with phrasal examples. The Tigrinya data is further compared with Geez, a closely related extinct language. A special subsection deals with ...
Added: December 25, 2020
Lyavdansky A., , in: Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic.: Open Book Publishers, 2021. P. 415–442.
The aim of this paper is to present a basic word list for Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic provided with etymologies and a discussion of problematic positions in the list. This study, which uses a variant of Swadesh list of 110 basic words, is the first research outcome after creating an electronic corpus of literary Christian Urmi based on the texts published in Soviet Union in 1929 - 1938 ...
Added: October 19, 2020
Open Book Publishers, 2021.
The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As ...
Added: October 19, 2020
Häberl C., Kuzin N., Loesov S. et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2020 Vol. 65 No. 2 P. 473–493
Versions of the folktale Zêrka Zêra (in Kurdish)/Stērka Zerá (in Ṭuroyo) circulate throughout southeastern Anatolia. The story belongs to a widely-disseminated tale type, the ‘Bear’s Wife’, which concerns a young woman who is abducted by a bear (or other wilderness creature) and is forced to spawn and rear his children before escaping or being rescued. ...
Added: September 4, 2020
Muraviev A., Издательский дом ЯСК, 2020.
The book deals with the history of the Western Syriac linguoconfessional group (suryāyē) in the 6-th cent. AD and the emrgence of their ethno-religious identity under Justin I and Justinian. West Syrians, who spoke and wrote in Classical Syriac after 451 became opponents of the Council of Chalcedon and started to develop a system of special identity markers ...
Added: June 14, 2020
Kogan L., Journal of the American Oriental Society. American Oriental Society 2019 Vol. 139 No. 4 P. 893–906
Thirty years after the appearance of Wolf Leslau’s Comparative Dictionary of
Geʿez, the present study aims at correcting and updating some of the entries of this
major tool of Semitic etymology. New data from Ugaritic, Akkadian, and especially
Modern South Arabian are prominent among the additions (particularly the
Soqotri lexical material acquired in the course of the many years ...
Added: February 20, 2020
Muraviev A., В кн.: Очерки истории христианских цивилизаций: в двух томахТ. 1: От зарождения до арабских завоеваний. В двух книгах. Кн. 2: Части 4-8.: М.: РОССПЭН, 2019. С. 70–77.
Syriac script and its derivatives ...
Added: January 24, 2020
Furman Y., Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019 Vol. 08 No. 60
The paper contains a review on a recently published volume ‘The Syriac World’, edited by Daniel King, which is dedicated to various aspects of Syriac culture, including history, literature, language and arts. ...
Added: September 27, 2019
Barsky E., Kalinin M., Loesov S., AULA ORIENTALIS 2018 Vol. 36 P. 209–235
The paper provides a list of morphological innovations exclusively shared by Mlaḥsô and Ṭuroyo. These point to the existence of a proto-Ṭuroyo/Mlaḥsô, which was not an ancestor of any other modern Aramaic language known to us. A study of the basic lexicon of Mlaḥsô, in comparison with that of Ṭuroyo and NENA, supplies a lexical dimension to the ...
Added: October 28, 2018
Loesov S., Kalinin M., State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 2017 Vol. XXIII P. 1–46
This study addresses the words unique to the extant Neo-Assyrian corpus. All of them are listed in the paper, with etymological and philological notes wherever feasible or appropriate. Two foci of the inquiry are innovations in the basic lexicon of Neo-Assyrian and productive rules of word-formation in this language. ...
Added: January 31, 2018
Loesov S., Furman Y., Barsky E., AULA ORIENTALIS 2018 Vol. 36 No. 1 P. 75–110
The study aims at establishing the Turoyo exponents for the two-hundred word Swadesh list and providing their etymologies. It is based on a searchable corpus of Turoyo and fieldwork. Special attentionhas been paid to intra-Turoyo dialectal differences in the basic lexicon. The etymological results are,roughly, as follows: 72 per cent of words have Aramaic etymology, 13 per cent are Arabisms, and 8 per centare Kurdisms. ...
Added: January 30, 2018
Визирова Е., В кн.: Языки мира: Семитские языки. Эфиосемитские языки.: М.: Academia, 2013.
Лингвистическое описание языка харари. Статья "Харари язык" (стр. 406-509) является частью тома "Семитские языки. Эфиосемитские языки" многотомного энциклопедического издания "Языки мира", подготавливаемого Институтом языкознания РАН. Статья строится по типовой схеме, единой для всех статей данного издания, и содержит подробные общелингвистические, фонологические, морфонологические, семантико-грамматические и морфосинтаксические сведения о языке харари, а также парадигмы, описание лексики и ...
Added: October 23, 2017