01-10-2008, 06:59 PM
yaaqub Wrote:And another one... the word for "repentance". The E. Aramaic, [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]Fwbyt[/font] (teyabuta), and the codex, [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]Fbwyt[/font] (teyubta).
The Taybutha seems to be a transposition of letters (very common scribal error)...sometimes that leads to a real word with a different reading altogether, imagine in the olden days with only consonants. Oh vey!
The Shamshana sounds like it could be a dialect thing with a different vowel....