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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Semitism
Semitism \Sem"i*tism\, n. A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin. [Written also Shemitism.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Semitism
1848, "characteristic attributes of Semitic languages;" 1851, "characteristic attributes of Semitic people," from Semite + -ism. From 1870 as "Jewish influence in a society."
Wikipedia
Semitism
Semitism may refer to:
- Semitism (linguistics), a grammatical or syntactical behaviour in a language which reveals that the influence of a Semitic language is present
- Judaism
- Philo-Semitism
- Semitic people
Semitism (linguistics)
In paleolinguistics a Semitism is a grammatical or syntactical behaviour in a language which reveals that the influence of a Semitic language is present. The most common example is the influence of Aramaic on some texts written in Jewish Koine Greek.