On the Origin of Some Plant Names in Ṣūrayt/Ṭūrōyo in Ṭūr ʿAbdīn

Aziz Tezel is a Researcher Emeritus in Semitic Languages. His research focuses on etymological problems, borrowings, quadriradical verbal formations, flora and the bgdkft-consonants. His book publications include Comparative Etymological Studies in the Western Neo-Syriac (Ṭūrōyo) Lexicon (Uppsala University, 2003).