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Hebrew-Aramaic definition

Hebrew-Aramaic (-ar′ə mā′ik, -er′-)

noun

a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic

Etymology: coined (c. 1954) by Max Weinreich (1894-1969), U.S. linguist, to render Yiddish loshn-koydesh & Heb leshon-hakodesh, lit., the language of holiness

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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