Meanings
plural Aramæisms
- archaiccountablehypercorrectrareuncountableArchaic spelling of Aramaeism, misconstruction of Aramaism
The Aramæism ש for אשר is to be expected in the oldest Scriptures, where Hebrew and Aramaic were closely joined as kindred dialects.
1878, Andrew Robert Fausset, The Church and the world, London: Hatchards, page 391 more example
the form וַיֵחַמְנָח, which occurs in Gen. xxx. 38, is not an Aramæism, but a more ancient form of the 3rd pers. plur. fem. imperf., coinciding with the Arabic يَقْتُلْنَ.
1860, “The Chaldaisms of the Book of Ecclesiastes”, in Evangelical Christendom. Its State and Prospects, volume 14, page 508
Origin
Formed in English from Aramæan + -ism by swapping -an with -ism.
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