The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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mn P01

often spelled מאן in Jewish texts for disambiguation from mn prep.

  1 who? Com. --(a) +(h)w, (h)y Com. (a.1) mn dhw : someone Syr, JBA. --(b) +šm const./pron. suffix : who are/is ? BA-Ez, Qum, JLAtg, Syr.
  2 + zy/dy/d : whoever, one who Com.
  3 introducing hypothetical exclamatory clauses: would that JLAtg, PTA, Sam, Syr, LJLA. --(a) ܡܢ ܕܝܢ + perf. verb Syr.

dn P01 = dn R --> dyn R

dyn, dn (dēn, den) pron. this one

Generally used as an independent form as opposed to attributive הָדֵין , but occasionally appears for (or as a var. for) the latter. In PTA/Gal/Sam/CPA (and probably Qum.) apparently with a short vowel (which is probably original: see s.v. dnh), for it is almost always spelled defectively in those dialects

1 this one Qum, Jud, JLAtg, Gal, PTA, CPA, Sam, JBAmb, LJLA. --(a) דין לדין , דין עם דין , etc. : to/with one another JLAtg, Gal, LJLA.
2 as enclitic in interrogative contexts: now, here, then JLAtg, Sam, LJLA.