Aramaicadj.
/arəˈmeɪɪk/ Of Aram; spec. applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. Often used absol. sc. language.
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Palmyrene1683
Aramaic1834
Safaitic1887
the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Aramaic
Chaldeish?c1510
Chaldee1602
Chaldic1623
Chaldean1690
Aramaic1882
Samaritan1886
Palmyrene1890
Nabatean1911
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 239/2 Translations of the Old Testament into the East-Aramaic language.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 207 Even if the Jews of the Dispersion understood Aramaic, the Gentiles did not.
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