Questions tagged [aramaic]
Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language attested from the early 1st millennium BCE to the present day.
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Origin of بطريق
I read here that the Arabic word بطريق (penguin) ultimately derives from Latin patricius (patrician), through Greek and Aramaic, but I couldn't find any explanation of how and why the shift in meaning ...
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Concerning Semitic Pronunciation of Pharyngeal Letters
So a popular theory in the pronunciation of Hebrew is that "Biblical Hebrew" (or, at the very least, Hebrew up to the point to the fall of the Second Temple and well into the 8th century CE) had ...
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Finding the root of an Aramaic or Hebrew word
I'm trying to make a dictionary on the web where people can automatically look up words in a text they're reading online. While I have the words and their definitions, the problem is that many times ...
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Linguistic or etymological relationship between the words "Sabbath" and "seven"
The words for "Sabbath" and "seven" seem similar in both Hebrew and Aramaic. Is there an etymological relationship between them?
Sabbath (Shabbat), שַׁבָּת, is Strong's H7676. It is spelled shin-bet-...
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What is the Aramaic transliteration system used in the "Aramaic of Jesus" Wikipedia article?
The Wikipedia article "Aramaic of Jesus" contains many instances of transliterated Aramaic, using a system I have not seen before. Some of the notations are well-established, like ŝ for /ʃ/ and ...
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Aramaic compared to Spanish
Is it possible to compare Aramaic to Spanish? If so, what are the differences and what are common? I have Spanish at school, and when I saw Passion of the Christ, I recognized lots of words (I don't ...
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