Christian Ravis, A Discourse of the Oriental Tongues (1649)
Date
1649
Author
Christian
Raue(alternate name for
Christian
Ravis
)
Note: 12/10/2005
nationality: German
languages: Samaritan, Calde, Ethiopain, Syriac (dialect of Aramaic)
Book title
A Discovrse of the Orientall Tongves viz. Ebrew, Samaritan, Calde, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic: together with A Generall Grammer For The Said Tongues
Publication place
London
Printer
William Wilson
Publisher
Thomas Slater and Thomas Huntington
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- Arabic
- Chaldee
- Hebrew
- Syriac
Summary
Some English equivalents
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: The EtiopicEbrew; the names of the letters now and then changed does not argue at all the changing of the tongue, Alf, Bet, Geml, Dent, Hoi, Vaw, Zoi, Haut, Taie, Jaman, Caf, Lavi, Mai, Nahas, Savt, Ayin, Af, Zadai, Qaf, Res, Saat, Taui. (p. 42)
sample: The EtiopicEbrew; the names of the letters now and then changed does not argue at all the changing of the tongue, Alf, Bet, Geml, Dent, Hoi, Vaw, Zoi, Haut, Taie, Jaman, Caf, Lavi, Mai, Nahas, Savt, Ayin, Af, Zadai, Qaf, Res, Saat, Taui. (p. 42)
Alston
III.ii.771; XIV.105
Wing
R 311
Other editions
1648: Wing R310 (Alston III.ii.770)
