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Se·mit·ics  (s-mtks)
n. (used with a sing. verb)
The study of the history, languages, and cultures of the Semitic peoples.

Se·miti·cist (--sst), Semi·tist (sm-tst) n.

Semitics [sɪˈmɪtɪks]
n
(Social Science / Peoples) (Linguistics / Languages) (functioning as singular) the study of Semitic languages and culture
Semitist  [ˈsɛmɪtɪst] n

Semitics
the study of Semitic languages and culture. — Semitist, Semiticist, n.
See also: Language
the study of Semitic languages and culture. — Semitist, Semiticist, n.
See also: Judaism


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The main objective of this work, he rationalizes, is to meet the needs of those Hebraists, Biblical scholars and Semiticists to whom "un-pointed Hebrew publications remain a terra incognita.
CaCCan constitutes what Semiticists refer to as a "discontinuous" or "nonconcatenative" word-formation pattern (e.
1) A number of Semiticists have attempted at various times to show that both particles were original demonstratives perhaps deriving from a common source.
 
 
 
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