Motke: Syriac Arabic and Hebrew and קדישׁ مقدس ܩܕܝܫܐ س/ش

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Oct 27, 2018 at 09:27

Another very interesting example is the קדישׁ prayer.

>ش/س switches when moving between Syriac and Arabic. E.g., Syriac's حمش is Arabic's خمس.

In Syro-Aramaic the word holy is ܩܕܝܫܐ or Qadisha In Arabic it is مقدس or Muqaddas and notice that the Syriac letter ش or sheen (I'm using Arabic Abgad) becomes Arabic seen or س

BTW: Syriac speakers as well as most Arabic speakers can understand the prayer except for one word and that is yitgaddal

It sounds Syro-Aramaic or Arabic but it is not. There is no Arabic or Syriac root for this word yitgaddal. From reading Jewish commentaries of the this word I understand it is from Hebrew gadool or great However, the "yit" before "gaddal" is really more Arabic and Syriac than Hebrew! No?

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