Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

Preface

pp.：  9 – 10

Acknowledgements

pp.：  11 – 12

Abbreviations and Symbols

pp.：  13 – 14

Chapter One Introduction

pp.：  15 – 30

1.1 Neo-Mandaic and Its Speakers

pp.：  15 – 18

1.2 The Neo-Mandaic Lexicon in Previous Studies

pp.：  19 – 22

1.3 Methodology

pp.：  23 – 30

1.3.1 Sources

pp.：  24 – 25

1.3.2 Transcription and Citation Forms

pp.：  26 – 30

Chapter Two Aspects of Previous Research

pp.：  31 – 48

2.1 Classicisms

pp.：  31 – 35

2.2 Inaccurate Definitions

pp.：  36 – 39

2.3 Ad hoc Persian and Arabic Loanwords

pp.：  40 – 40

2.4 Ad hoc Circumlocutions

pp.：  41 – 43

2.5 Ghost Words

pp.：  44 – 45

2.6 Aramaic Verbal Roots Based on Incorrect Etymologies

pp.：  46 – 48

Chapter Three Neo-Mandaic and Pre-Modern Aramaic

pp.：  49 – 104

3.1 Continuity of the Neo-Mandaic Lexicon and Old Aramaic

pp.：  49 – 49

3.2 Continuity of the Neo-Mandaic Lexicon and Literary Mandaic

pp.：  50 – 51

3.3 Some Hitherto Unattested Mandaic Lexemes Surfacing in Neo-Mandaic

pp.：  52 – 90

3.3.1 Genuine Aramaic Words and Forms Hitherto Unattested in Literary Mandaic

pp.：  53 – 71

3.3.2 Early Iranian Loanwords Hitherto Unattested in Literary Mandaic

pp.：  72 – 75

3.3.3 Akkadian Lexical Influences Surfacing in Neo-Mandaic

pp.：  76 – 90

3.4 The Importance of Neo-Mandaic for Elucidating Literary Mandaic Lexemes

pp.：  91 – 104

Chapter Four Neo-Mandaic and Other Neo-Aramaic Varieties: Isolexes

pp.：  105 – 158

4.1 Shared Retentions of Neo-Mandaic and Other Neo-Aramaic Varieties

pp.：  105 – 109

4.2 Shared Retentions with Semantic Differences

pp.：  110 – 125

4.2.1 Semantic Differences Unique to Neo-Mandaic

pp.：  110 – 112

4.2.2 Further Shared Retentions with Semantic Differences

pp.：  113 – 116

4.2.3 Shared Retentions in Neo-Mandaic, NENA and Ṭuroyo

pp.：  117 – 125

4.3 Peripheral Relic Lexical Items

pp.：  126 – 130

4.3.1 Relic Lexical Items Shared with Western Neo-Aramaic

pp.：  126 – 129

4.3.2 Relic Lexical Items Shared with Ṭuroyo and with Mlaḥsô

pp.：  130 – 130

4.4 Neo-Mandaic-NENA Isoglosses

pp.：  131 – 158

4.4.1 Isoglosses in Both Form and Meaning

pp.：  132 – 136

4.4.2 Morpho-Lexical Isoglosses

pp.：  137 – 139

4.4.3 Neo-Mandaic Isolexes with Some of the NENA Dialects

pp.：  140 – 151

4.4.4 Neo-Mandaic-NENA Isolexes with Semantic Differences

pp.：  152 – 158

Chapter Five The Uniqueness of the Neo-Mandaic Lexicon within Neo-Aramaic

pp.：  159 – 226

5.1 Pre-Modern Aramaic Words and Meanings Surviving Only in Neo-Mandaic

pp.：  159 – 179

5.2 Unique Neo-Mandaic Words and Meanings Related to Lexical Replacement

pp.：  180 – 206

5.2.1 Unique Neo-Mandaic Words

pp.：  180 – 189

5.2.2 Unique Neo-Mandaic Meanings

pp.：  190 – 206

5.3 Unique Neo-Mandaic Compounds and Blends

pp.：  207 – 212

5.4 Some Unique Neo-Mandaic Words of Unknown or Uncertain Origin

pp.：  213 – 216

5.5 Various Other Unique Neo-Mandaic Words and Meanings

pp.：  217 – 226

Bibliographical References

pp.：  227 – 236

Index of Neo-Mandaic Words

pp.：  237 – 243