Ierdhe
Ierdhe arabice panis valde mollis.
Apparatus:
Ierdhe AC | Ierdehe B | Ierdche efjp
mollis | molis B f
Translation:
Ierdhe is Arabic for Latin 'very soft bread'.
Commentary:
Simon’s expected transcription would be *Ierdeche. Simon in his Preface § 6 intended to distinguish contrastively the two variants using the letter “I,i” for the vowel/semivowel, e.g. Latin Iuncus {“a rush”; initial sound as in “yes”, but “J,j” for the consonant, i.e. affricate, ﺟﻤﻴﺰ /ğummaiz/ *Jumeiz” {“sycamore fig”; initial sound as in “jest”}. This would result in a transcription,like *Jerdeche. Unfortunately the scribes did not adhere to this proposal and the distinction is nowhere clearly applied in the witnesses consulted.
Ierdhe:
- Cf. Vocabulista, ed. Schiaparelli (1871: 509): … ﺟﺮﺩﻘﺔ /ğardaqa/ PANIS [[1]].
- Corriente (1997: 93), s.v. *(JRDQ) jardaqah … "round loaf", and he sees it as a Pahlavi loan girdag "round" and Modern Persian /girde/ "round bread".
- Dozy (1877-81: I.185): ﺟﺮﺩﻖ /ğardaq/ et ﺟﺮﺪﻖ /ğarḏaq/, ﺟﺮﺩﻘﺔ /ğardaqa/ et ﺟﺮﺪﻘﺔ /ğarḏaqa/ … A Damas on donne le nom de djardaka à une pâtisserie de froment , … "In Damascus the name djardaka is given to a cake made of wheat…"
- Lane (1984: 408): ﺟﺮﺩﻖ /ğardaq/ and ﺟﺮﺪﻖ /ğarḏaq/ or ﺟﺮﺩﻘﺔ /ğardaqa/ and ﺟﺮﺪﻘﺔ /ğarḏaqa/ … "a cake of bread".
WilfGunther 18:33, 4 September 2014 (BST)
