"Aramean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Their territory extended northwards towards Palestine, and from their very intimate relations with the Israelites, as friends and as enemies, both nations appear to have understood each other perfectly. May not their language, then, have been a dialect of the Aramean?[EN82] If so, the (Yithro) of the Bible might have been (Yithrab, Yathrib, etc.). Instances of the apocopated (b) are common in the Chaldean or Syro-Chaldaic at the present day; e.g. (Yaheb Alaha) is pronounced Yau-Alaha; (Yashua'-yaheb) becomes Yashua-yau, etc., the final Beth ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton |
