Semitistics

English Etymology From en Semitist -ics. en Semite -istics. Pronunciation en /ˌsɛmɪˈtɪstɪks/ en ɪstɪks 4 Noun - en Semitic studies en Arabistics Aramaistics Hebraistics en 1968 Mundus https://books.google.com/books?id=ffrfAAAAMAAJ 329 When it is completed, this work will gain for this language the place that is due to it not only in Aramaistics but also in Semitistics. en 2007 Studia Orientalia 563 https://books.google.com/books?id=80jtAAAAMAAJ For the linguist, on the contrary, the remains of the Neo-Aramaic dialects are extremely valuable, for linguistics in general and, especially, for Comparative Semitistics (and, through it, for Afro-Asiatic studies). en 2008 Sven-Olof Dahlgren The relevance of tense and aspect in Semitic Languages Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses 222 https://books.google.com/books?id=XZc5AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA222 It is common in Semitistics to use a certain verb in a Semitic language as a model for describing different verb forms, for instance iprus ‘to cut’ (literally ‘he cut’) in Akkadian and faʕala ‘to do’ in Arabic (literally ‘he did’, the sound of ʕ is a voiced, laryngeal fricative), although here we, for the sake of convenience, mainly use one and the same verb.