Re: ladino help, דיאיל

[Joan C Biella]

Well, I'm no Ladino expert, but in the first case you mention, I would
say we're dealing with a compound of  "de" and "el".  I would guess it's
a dialect (or subdialect) word, and I guess I would romanize it as
"de'el."  Why it's used before a proper name I don't know--is there
really no "Rabi" or the like between?

Short of finding an actual Ladino specialist, the solution may not be
easy.
Joan

>>> Jasmin Nof <j...@umd.edu> 11/12/2009 3:16 PM >>>
hi, i'm cataloging Sefer Hovot ha-levevat in a ladino translation, 1822

vienna edition, and trying to figure out how to romanize דיאיל 
("ṭresladado דיאיל Rabenu Baḥya  ... ṭresladado דיאיל Yiśraʼel ben
Ḥayim 
de-Belgrado").  i've looked in the dictionaries we have, but they're 
only in roman characters, so not very helpful. i know that די is de and

דל is del. what am i missing?  please advise. 

thanks!  jasmin

Jasmin Nof
Judaica and Hebraica Cataloger
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University of Maryland
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