Hebrew-Aramaic
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
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