So are we agreed that דיאיל is a variant of די איל? --Joan
>>> Jasmin Nof <j...@umd.edu> 11/12/2009 4:51 PM >>>
yes, it precedes ga'on ha-hasid rabenu bahyah the first time and then a
bunch of other words before Yiśraʼel ben Ḥayim (there should have
been
an ellipses below). does that help?
Joan C Biella wrote:
> 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
> 2200 McKeldin Library
> University of Maryland
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>
>
