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Mozarabic
Etymology
From Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn, “poor”), from Classical Syriac ܡܶܣܟܸܝܢܳܐ (meskēnā, “miserable, wretched”), from Akkadian 𒈦𒆕𒂗 (muškēnum, “commoner, poor”).
Adjective
משכון (mškwn)
- poor
c. 1100,
Kharja H12 :
[1]- משכוניד משוטדיש ביד
- mškwnyd mšwṭdyš byd
- she's poor, you see
Notes
Corriente takes ⟨mškwn⟩ to represent a Mozarabic miskína.
References
- ^ Corriente, F., Sáenz-Badillos, A. (1994) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt con texto romance de la serie hebrea”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIV, number 3/4, pages 286–287