The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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m_ p03 = m_ p --> mn p

In Jewish texts also מין and [as in Hebrew] מִ ; w. pron. suffixes: מִינִּי etc.

  1 from Com. --(a) direction Com. (a.1) place Com. (a.2) person Com. (a.3) as first element of compound prepositions and adverbs indicating the origin of directional movement Com. --(b) origin Com. (b.1) place Com. 1 with words indicating location : e.g. מימין : on the right Com. (b.2) person Com. (b.3) material Com. (b.4) time Com. 1 conj.: since, after : see s.v. mn conj. Com. (b.5) as first element of compound prepositions and adverbs indicating the origin of movement through time Com. (b.6) as the second element of compound prepositions indicating relative location Com.
  2 partitive Com. --(a) indicating a fractional part Syr. (a.1) as a pseudo-substantive : some of Syr.
  3 indicating the agent BA-Ez, Syr.
  4 indicating the cause Com. --(a) conj : because : see s.v. mn conj. .
  5 comparative Com.
  6 : other verbal complements Com.
  7 between repeated absolutes: distributive Syr.
  8 : multiplicative Jud.
  9 : on the side of, with Syr, Man. --(a) as the first element of compound adverbs of manner Com. (a.1) mnh wbh, mnh wlh : of itself, by itself Syr, JBA. --(b) as an emphasizing first element of compound prepositions, conjunctions Com.
  10 : reflexive Syr.

try@(sr n01

try ˁsr, trty ˁsry (m. tǝre(n)ˁsar, f. tartaˁesrē) num. twelve

the nun is found in some examples in PTA and GAL and as a variant in LJLA, but it is difficult to be certain if there it is a survival or an innovation based on the simple ordinal "2"; JBA, LJLA תריסר ; the /e/ vowel preceding the ayin in the feminine form would appear to be a secondary development as well, given that both JLAtg and Syr. show /a/ in that position. Definite: trē(n>ˁăsartē

1 twelve Com. --(a) definite : trē(n) ˁăsartā, const. : trē(n) ˁăsartē Com.