ܘܨ

Classical Syriac

Etymology

From Middle Persian *vač, from which developed Neo-Persian وج (vaj).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [ˈwasˤ]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈwasˤ]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈwɑsˤ]

Noun

ܘܲܨ or ܘܰܨ • (waṣ) m

1. sweet flag, Acorus calamus

Inflection

Indeclinable, but declinable if it were to have an emphatic state as *ܘܲܨܵܐ / *ܘܰܨܳܐ (*waṣṣā). The hypothetical forms would be:

Inflection of ܘܨ

	isolated forms			with possessive pronouns
	state	form		person	singular		plural
					m	f	m	f
singular	absolute	ܘܨ		1st person	ܘܨܝ		ܘܨܢ
	construct	ܘܨ		2nd person	ܘܨܟ	ܘܨܟܝ	ܘܨܟܘܢ	ܘܨܟܝܢ
	emphatic	ܘܨܐ		3rd person	ܘܨܗ	ܘܨܗ	ܘܨܗܘܢ	ܘܨܗܝܢ
plural	absolute	ܘܨܝܢ		1st person	ܘܨܝ		ܘܨܝܢ
	construct	ܘܨܝ		2nd person	ܘܨܝܟ	ܘܨܝܟܝ	ܘܨܝܟܘܢ	ܘܨܝܟܝܢ
	emphatic	ܘܨܐ		3rd person	ܘܨܘܗܝ	ܘܨܝܗ	ܘܨܝܗܘܢ	ܘܨܝܗܝܢ

References

• “wṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2021-06-21
• Bar ʿalī (Īshōʿ) (a. 900) Gottheil, Richard, editor, Syrisch-arabische Glossen [ʔ-m] (in Classical Syriac), Kiel: Schwers’sche Buchhandlung, published 1874, Nr. 3386
• Bar Bahlul, Ḥasan (a. 1000) Duval, Rubens, editor, Lexicon Syriacum (Collection Orientale; 15–17) (in Classical Syriac), Paris: e Reipublicæ typographæo, published 1901, page 332, column 667
• Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 185b
• Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, pages 40–41, Nr. 100
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[1] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 131, Nr. 87