Xager

Xager vel saier arabice arbor.

Apparatus:

vel saier AC | ul' xaget ul' aier B | uel xaier e | l' xaiar f

Translation:

Xager or saier are Arabic for Latin arbor ("tree")

Commentary:

Wehr (1976): ﺷﺨﺭ /šağar/ coll. "trees, shrubs, bushes". For transcribing the sound /š/ with the letter 'x', see X littera 4) Iberian scribal tradition and words of Arabic origin.

See also: Scager

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