A significant quantity of Assyrian words end with "-leh" where unexpected

[ronrihoo]

Please allow me to begin with my appreciation to both Awia Oraha (the developer of this very useful dataset) and the developer of this project. Don't want to come off like I'm griping.

This is the sort of dataset that I could use (with some modifications) for a non-dictionary app. So I hope that it's free for all to use.

The issue:

It appears that many, if not all, Assyrian words that end with the "ileh" contraction ("-leh") should rather not contain the contraction, based on their English equivalents.

I haven't checked all occurrences manually, so some might qualify; however, I could not find any English entry in the form of "he [past-tense verb]" (including "it" as an alternative). That is, running a query on this returned no results.

Examples:

The word "rise" (entry 3383) is defined as "rymleh"; however, the English equivalent to "rymleh" would be "he rose." The Assyrian equivalent to "rise" would be "ryama."
ܪܝܼܡܠܹܗ
ܪܝܵܡܵܐ

Another is "roam" (entry 3390).

khdirleh (he roamed) should be khdara (to roam).
ܚܕܸܪܠܹܗ
ܚܕܵܪܵܐ

doyirleh (he roamed) should be dyara (to roam).
ܕܘ݂ܝܸܪܠܹܗ
ܕܝܵܪܵܐ

krikhleh (he roamed) should be krakha (to roam).
ܟܪܸܟ݂ܠܹܗ
ܟܪܵܟ݂ܵܐ

The extent:

At the time of this posting, the contracted form of the word "ileh" occurs (as a suffix) in 1225 words, in no less than 478 rows, and in no more than 582 rows.

Therefore, many of them are from the same rows, where usually all the rest of the Assyrian words have this same characteristic.

Disclaimer:

Please recall that I haven't manually checked all cases against their English equivalents. Some may be valid, regardless of my basic programmatic test against the entire dataset (as mentioned above).

Occurrences:

The following indices are where the contraction occurs:

0, 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 15, 27, 28, 34, 35, 39, 40, 43, 59, 60, 62, 77, 78, 79, 82, 86, 87, 93, 94, 100, 101, 107, 108, 123, 134, 135, 140, 146, 147, 172, 188, 199, 239, 263, 280, 284, 292, 293, 294, 298, 310, 316, 325, 333, 347, 351, 371, 388, 403, 420, 427, 460, 465, 475, 483, 493, 504, 505, 507, 510, 513, 515, 518, 539, 552, 553, 554, 566, 591, 615, 620, 624, 630, 648, 651, 674, 700, 710, 713, 720, 742, 757, 773, 790, 840, 852, 869, 879, 898, 919, 923, 926, 939, 946, 962, 963, 964, 971, 980, 992, 1010, 1017, 1024, 1031, 1036, 1105, 1112, 1135, 1144, 1149, 1155, 1157, 1158, 1163, 1167, 1171, 1175, 1178, 1179, 1186, 1188, 1190, 1196, 1197, 1202, 1208, 1212, 1214, 1221, 1227, 1238, 1239, 1241, 1242, 1243, 1244, 1253, 1256, 1257, 1261, 1268, 1269, 1274, 1299, 1305, 1309, 1339, 1354, 1357, 1367, 1369, 1374, 1375, 1376, 1378, 1379, 1380, 1383, 1385, 1390, 1403, 1404, 1407, 1410, 1414, 1415, 1416, 1417, 1422, 1426, 1436, 1440, 1441, 1450, 1454, 1459, 1463, 1469, 1471, 1477, 1479, 1481, 1482, 1491, 1497, 1503, 1507, 1508, 1510, 1513, 1514, 1515, 1516, 1520, 1521, 1527, 1544, 1547, 1570, 1579, 1581, 1582, 1612, 1623, 1642, 1643, 1645, 1651, 1658, 1659, 1661, 1669, 1671, 1678, 1679, 1681, 1689, 1691, 1699, 1707, 1708, 1710, 1711, 1727, 1751, 1752, 1770, 1771, 1778, 1791, 1804, 1828, 1837, 1846, 1850, 1853, 1858, 1876, 1906, 1907, 1937, 1942, 1945, 1952, 1953, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1985, 2002, 2015, 2016, 2038, 2043, 2066, 2068, 2080, 2081, 2086, 2104, 2113, 2124, 2126, 2133, 2138, 2140, 2147, 2154, 2160, 2162, 2165, 2166, 2173, 2190, 2216, 2243, 2262, 2267, 2268, 2271, 2272, 2281, 2284, 2305, 2310, 2322, 2345, 2369, 2373, 2374, 2378, 2387, 2395, 2397, 2398, 2405, 2408, 2434, 2440, 2442, 2452, 2454, 2461, 2466, 2502, 2509, 2514, 2537, 2546, 2553, 2557, 2560, 2573, 2596, 2661, 2683, 2691, 2696, 2698, 2707, 2751, 2770, 2772, 2808, 2819, 2830, 2862, 2871, 2883, 2888, 2902, 2914, 2940, 2955, 2966, 2968, 2999, 3022, 3047, 3051, 3052, 3125, 3156, 3163, 3170, 3173, 3180, 3183, 3188, 3191, 3205, 3218, 3219, 3220, 3233, 3238, 3246, 3247, 3252, 3253, 3254, 3261, 3264, 3265, 3268, 3274, 3275, 3279, 3280, 3282, 3283, 3289, 3295, 3298, 3302, 3303, 3304, 3305, 3320, 3321, 3324, 3330, 3344, 3345, 3351, 3353, 3356, 3357, 3359, 3369, 3378, 3380, 3383, 3390, 3392, 3399, 3400, 3414, 3419, 3424, 3425, 3449, 3464, 3469, 3479, 3481, 3492, 3495, 3514, 3517, 3524, 3525, 3527, 3530, 3531, 3557, 3560, 3563, 3566, 3568, 3572, 3577, 3581, 3586, 3587, 3599, 3615, 3624, 3633, 3634, 3657, 3664, 3666, 3671, 3689, 3704, 3708, 3734, 3738, 3741, 3742, 3761, 3767, 3771, 3775, 3786, 3789, 3797, 3800, 3849, 3857, 3859, 3883, 3905, 3913, 3941, 3958, 3959, 3983, 3988, 4000, 4011, 4015, 4024, 4035, 4049, 4069, 4077, 4091, 4117, 4153, 4173

[abgier-avraha]

Thank you for your feedback. I will forward this thread to my father for him to read through.