Greetings H2O,
Thanks for adding your comments..
Apple Quoted Edward Lane Who wrote:
….I often have found in my knowledge of modern Arabic a solution of a difficulty; but without great caution, such knowledge would frequently have misled me, in consequence of the changes which have taken place in the applications of many words since the classical age.
References:
An Arabic-English Lexicon, E.W. Lane, volume one, pp. vii – viii; xxii - xxiii
Meaning he is subjected to his own criticism. That is why he relied mostly on the Arabic knowledge of others before him to give his renderings.
Perhaps your first clue was that it is “derived from the best and the most copious eastern sources”…..? :roll:
Take care…