What's the difference between aramaic and aramaism?
Aramaic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee.
(n.) The Aramaic language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Motion pictures based on events that took place a long time ago can play fast and loose with the facts, particularly if Mel Gibson is the director: William Wallace never met Queen Isabella, wife of the unfortunate Edward II; the British army did not make a policy of incinerating American civilians in churches during the revolutionary war; it was the Romans, not the Jews, who killed Christ, and it is doubtful that anyone involved in his crucifixion spoke Aramaic.
(2) It was interesting but I couldn't cut it in Aramaic."
(3) "We came for Lebanon's future to show that we will not be scared," said Arama Fakhouri, an interior designer from Beirut in the cheering crowd.
(4) A tourist attraction before the civil war erupted in March 2011, some of Maaloula's residents still speak a version of Aramaic, a biblical language spoken by Jesus.
Aramaism
Definition:
(n.) An idiom of the Aramaic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Motion pictures based on events that took place a long time ago can play fast and loose with the facts, particularly if Mel Gibson is the director: William Wallace never met Queen Isabella, wife of the unfortunate Edward II; the British army did not make a policy of incinerating American civilians in churches during the revolutionary war; it was the Romans, not the Jews, who killed Christ, and it is doubtful that anyone involved in his crucifixion spoke Aramaic.
(2) It was interesting but I couldn't cut it in Aramaic."
(3) "We came for Lebanon's future to show that we will not be scared," said Arama Fakhouri, an interior designer from Beirut in the cheering crowd.
(4) A tourist attraction before the civil war erupted in March 2011, some of Maaloula's residents still speak a version of Aramaic, a biblical language spoken by Jesus.