Meanings
nounArameism (countable and uncountable, plural Arameisms)
plural Arameisms
- alternativecountablehypercorrectrareuncountableAlternative spelling of Aramaeism, misconstruction of Aramaism
[…] but in an Arameism of this kind the form is always preserved with the signification, which is not the case, for in Aram. the conj. Aphel only is in use.
1828, Wilhelm Gesenius, translated by Christopher Leo, A Hebrew Lexicon to the Books of the Old Testament, volume 2, Cambridge: University Press, page 598b
Origin
Formed in English from Aramean + -ism by swapping -an with -ism.
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