a north-western karaim manuscript found in lutsk – a case of dialect ...

142 MICHAŁ NÉMETHHebrew abbreviations are explained in the commentaries. The translation of thewhole text, including all Hebrew fragments, is provided in chapter 5. We have notedthe differences between Mardkowicz’s reading and the original text in every casewhere Mardkowicz’s system of transcription clearly points to a different reading.In other words, we show where our transcription differs and not where our transcriptionsystems are different. This means that discrepancies which would not have beenreflected anyway in Mardkowicz’s article are not noted separately. For instance, he didnot note the palatality of ḱ in front of -e-, which means that kenesa in Mardkowicz’sarticle equals ḱenesa in our transcription.Page 1[1] bh 3[2] 1868. juł 4 17. ph bʿwdssʿ[3] ʾhwby ydydy kmʿ5yṣḥaq hgbʾy, bn kmhr 6 zrḥ hnbwn bzyqwwyṣ zl 7[4] wkl hqhl hqdwš dy Łucka! 8[5] Burunhu iiǵiń kahałnyn 18. podpisba 9 kabuł eip, yštyrdyχ 10 aχča 11[6] 300. rubeł da ijik kawodunuzha. r 12 Jeszua Szemoel jazdy ḱi kabuł ei oł[7] aχčany. 13 Eḱińi iik ḱei mana kahałyjyzdan 14 5. podpisba ḱi üaiar 15[8] oł ü 16 juź 17 rubełny, da jazyłhan ḱiḿaŕǵa, 18 da ḱi beraχa eŕii qq 19Aeśńiń 20[9] da tabu eaar 21 ndraŕi 22 üuń, 23 da ḱi doẃerennost ijii. Bu bary jaχšy 243‏ּבְ‏ עֶ‏ זְ‏ רַ‏ ת הַ‏ ‏ׁשֵ‏ ם Hebr. An abbreviation of ב֜‏ : ה֜‏‘with the Lord’s help’.4M: ijuł. The lack of a word-initial aleph ‏:יולpoints to a reading with j-.5prob- The abbreviation stands most ‏:כמע׳ably for Hebr. ד מַ‏ עֲ‏ לַ‏ ת ‘honourable ‏ּכְ‏ ב ‏ֹו sir’or, perhaps, ‏ּכְ‏ בֹוד מִ‏ נּוחָ‏ תֹו עֵ‏ דֶ‏ ן ‘the honourablerepose of which is Eden’ (for the latterinterpretation see Munkácsi (1909: 187) andNémeth (2011: 344)).6‏ּכְ‏ ב ‏ֹו ד מַ‏ עֲ‏ לַ‏ ת Hebr. An abbreviation of ‏:כמהר׳חָ‏ רַ‏ ב רַ‏ ‏ּבִ‏ י7זִ‏ כְ‏ ר ‏ֹו נ ‏ֹו לִ‏ בְ‏ רָ‏ כָ‏ ה Hebr. : An abbreviation of ז֮‏ ל‘honourable sir and the Rabbi’.‘may his memory be blessed; of blessedmemory’.8The Hebrew heading was translated byMardkowicz (1933: 7) in these words: 1868 jiłda,17 ijul da. Adeste. Siwerim k. m. Jicchakoł gabbaj, uwłu ribbi Zarachnyn oł akyłłynyn,Bezikowicz da bar oł aziz dzymatŁuckada. The translation is faithful to theoriginal.9spell- writing follows the פ ‏ֹו דְ‏ : The פִ‏ י ס בָ‏ אing of Pol. podpis ‘signature’ and Russ.подпись id. even though the actual pronunciationreflects -tp- in both cases. See alsothis word repeated in line 7 below.10M[ardkowicz]: ystyrdyk.11M: achca.12רַ‏ ‏ּבִ‏ י ‏’‏sir‏‘רַ‏ or ב Hebr. An abbreviation of ‏:ר׳‘rabbi’.13M: achcany.14M: kahałynyzdan.15M: iliśtiłer.16M: ic.17M: jiz.18M: kimłerge.: An abbreviation standing for Hebr.‘Holy Community’. Repeatedalso in line 16. M: kahałyna.20M: Adesnin.19ק֝‏ ק֝‏קְ‏ הִ‏ ‏ּלָ‏ ה קְ‏ ד ‏ֹו ‏ׁשָ‏ ה21M: etedłer.22sa- solemn promise; 2. נֶ‏ ‘1. דֶ‏ ר Hebr. ‏:נדרלריcred donation’ used with the plural andpossessive suffix. The word is repeated inline 22. M: nederłeri.23M: icin.24M: jachsy.