Meanings
- Pertaining to, or resembling, Aramaic.
"Middle Aramaic" is used in two senses in Aramaistic literature.
1981, Daniel Boyarin, “An inquiry into the formation of the Middle Aramaic dialects”, in Bono Homini Donum, page 6134 more examples
רצוא, from רוץ = רצא, according to Häv.: an Aramaistic form.
1876, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, page 48(page 253) The form mtpgr is a bit strange; it is either a Hithpael participle or the Aramaistic Ithpeel. (page 472) In the Notes to Number 31, several Aramaistic locutions were identified, which suggest assigning this chapter to the Achaemenid Period.
2000, Numbers 21–36: A New Translation, pages 253, 472We also find Aramaistic masculine forms such as kəlāl “general rule” and pərāṭ “specification” alongside feminine qəṭālâ “death, execution.” [...]
2011, In Pursuit of Meaning, page 309As it will be argued below, there are several problems with older views of Aramaistic uses of εὐθύς/έως that are also included in Grelot’s survey (1996, 389).
2018, Semitisms in Luke’s Greek, page 213
Origin
From Aramaist + -ic. By surface analysis, Arama- + -istic. Compare Hebraistic.
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