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ennay icara^ efkay assayyi: {\^ A^foyay asyata ennay ; aqlay 



of-us sufficient (?) give-us to-day. Forgivc-us sin of-usj behold- 



Sayanni anna^Jb akra aw'inna Ulan* ennay. Orayassakcam 



we also we-forgive all that were ours. Do-not-us-bring-intt) 



accak. 

 trial. (?) 



So the Lord's prayer ends in this version, being yet more defective than 

 in the Vulgate, from which, however, we apprehend it must have been 

 taken. Indeed, t in ch. ii. 14. the words agree with the Latin, />«*• homi- 

 nidus boncB voluntatis. 



To open the character of the grammar, it is proposed to analyse the 

 above, word by word. 



(1) A g g akk ann i. — Ag, from ; Akkanni, or Akanni, when. Akanni 

 is found written Akayenni ; from Ka (according to) which is Hebrew, &c. 

 and Anni or Ayenni (this). 



Et zalla, " precetur, precaretnr." — Root, izal, he prayed. 



A ggamkan. — .^^•, from ; and Makan, [Arab.] place. 



Ifo k. — Root, Fakk, [Arab, he pulled out] lie delivered, set free, finished, 

 or left ofi". These meanings are nearly found combined in the Latin absolvo, 

 and Arabic Xaloff. 



Ennay a s, he said to him (or her). The radical part of the verb Say, 

 appears to be Eny or fVenyh. Compare the following. 



' Enni, say thou, — command thou. 



EniQ, say ye, — tell ye. EniOes, say ye to him. 



J Ennan, "1 • ■, n 



i E' . V r they said, ^wwawa*, they said to him (or her). 



Ennay us, he said to him. 

 ,Ennayasan, he said to them. Qennayas, she said to him. 



Yiwan, one j fem. yiwaO. This is the only numeral which is not 

 Arabic. 



A gd ar b a ^de s. — A4g, from ; darba^d, discipline or disciples ; es, of 

 him. The Arabic Arba^, four, seems to take in its Berber derivatives the 

 notion of regularity, derived from that of squareness. Hence fVarba^, a 

 soldier (Luke iii. 14). Qarba^O, discipline (i. 5), and lineage (ii. 4). 

 Here, and constantly, disciples. A collective feminine singular for a mas- 

 culine plural is on the Arabic model. The reader will observe the servile 

 d prefixed and postfixed, to make a feminine noun. 



A Rabbi, Oh Lord. The word Rabbi seems ordinarily used for 



• Something in the text appears to be wanting. 



f They run thus : Ay/al-qa^a faslhm emmaddan iyyan ibyan anfa^ 



On the earth peace ot men who choose usefully ; i. c. har* 

 proper sentiments. 



