ܐܢܚܢܢ

Classical Syriac

Alternative forms

• ܐܚܢܢ (ʾaḥnan)

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

• ܚܢܢ (ḥənan)

References

• “ḥnn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-06-27
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 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, p. 60b