Etymological Notes on North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic

∗Akkadian, Kurdish and Syriac words are usually given without reference when they can readily be tracked down in the following dictionaries: Akkadian: AHw, CAD ; Kurdish: T. Wahby and C.J. Edmonds, A Kurdish–English Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), F.F. Omar, Kurdisch–Deutches Wörterbuch (Kurmanĉı). (Berlin: Kurdische Studien Berlin im Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1992), B. Rizgar, Kurdish–English English-Kurdish Dictionary (Kurmanĉı), (London: Lithosphere Printing, 1993), M.L. Chyet, Kurdish–English Dictionary (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003); Syriac: R. Payne Smith, Thesaurus Syriacum (2 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879-1901; henceforth: Thesaurus), J. Payne Smith, A Compendious Syriac Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903), C. Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halle: Max Niemyer, 2nd edn, 1928). Notes on transcription: The vowels i, e, E and o are long; otherwise vowel length is marked only for long ā versus short a and long ū versus short u. Stress is penultimate unless otherwise indicated. Superscript + preceding a word indicates word-emphasis. Abbreviations: Akk. = Akkadian, Ar. = Arabic, Azer. = Azerbaijani, C. = Christian dialect of . . . (e.g. C.Urmi), J. = Jewish dialect of . . . (e.g. J.Urmi), JBA = Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, JPA = Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Kurd. = Kurdish, Mand. = Mandaic, OA = Older Aramaic (vis-à-vis Neo-Aramaic), Syr. = Syriac. See further under n. 2. NENA consists of dialects spoken (or originally spoken) east of the Tigris river in Kurdistan, the plain of Mos.ul and Iranian Azerbaijan. The lexical data offered in this paper refer to the following Neo-Aramaic dialects: