Note highlights the survival of an early linguistic variant in modern editions of antiphonaries, suggesting historical significance.
This note draws attention to the survival of the spelling ዝያቆን፡, zǝyāqon, ‘deacon’ (for Standard Medieval Gǝʿǝz ዲያቆን፡, diyāqon) in Dǝggʷā-type antiphonaries up to modern print editions. The phenomenon is interpreted as an isolated survival of an early linguistic variant, which appears to have established itself as the standard form in a specific phrase in antiphons only by the sixteenth century.
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