Meanings
- uncountableSynonym of Semitic studies
When it is completed, this work will gain for this language the place that is due to it not only in Aramaistics but also in Semitistics.
1968, Mundus, page 3292 more examples
For the linguist, on the contrary, the remains of the Neo-Aramaic dialects are extremely valuable, for linguistics in general and, especially, for Comparative Semitistics (and, through it, for Afro-Asiatic studies).
2007, Studia Orientalia, page 563It is common in Semitistics to use a certain verb in a Semitic language as a model for describing different verb forms, for instance iprus ‘to cut’ (literally ‘he cut’) in Akkadian and faʕala ‘to do’ in Arabic (literally ‘he did’, the sound of ʕ is a voiced, laryngeal fricative), although here we, for the sake of convenience, mainly use one and the same verb.
2008, Sven-Olof Dahlgren, “The relevance of tense and aspect in Semitic Languages”, in Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses, page 222Synonyms: Semitic studies
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of Semitic studies
Origin
From Semitist + -ics. By surface analysis, Semite + -istics.
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Semitistics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Semitistics
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