Edomite language
| Edomite | |
|---|---|
| Region | southwestern Jordan and southern Israel. |
| Era | early 1st millennium BCE[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xdm |
xdm | |
| Glottolog | edom1234 |
Edomite was a
ostraca, and a single late 7th or early 6th century BCE letter, discovered in Horvat Uza.[2][3][4][5]
Like
absolute state. In early times, it seems to have been written with a Phoenician alphabet. However, by the 6th century BCE, it adopted the Aramaic alphabet. Meanwhile, Aramaic or Arabic features such as whb ("gave") and tgr ("merchant") entered the language, with whb becoming especially common in proper names.[citation needed] Like many other Canaanite languages, Edomite features a prefixed definite article derived from the presentative particle (for example as in h-ʔkl ‘the food’). The diphthong /aw/ contracted to /o/ between the 7th and 5th century BCE, as foreign transcriptions of the divine name "Qos" indicate a transition in pronunciation from Qāws to Qôs.[6]
Examples
| Edomite[7] | Reconstructed transliteration (per Ahituv 2008) | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| אמר למלך אמר לבלבל | ʾōmēr lammeleḵ ʾĕmōr ləḆīlbēl | (Thus) said to the king: Say to Bilbel, |
| השלם את והברכתך | hăšālōm ʾattā wəhīḇraḵəttīḵā | "Are you well?" and "I bless you |
| לקוס ועת תן את האכל | ləQōs wəʿattā tēn ʾet hāʾoḵel | by Qos." And now give the food |
| [ ] אשר עמד אחאמה | ʾăšer ʿīmmaḏ ʾĂḥīʾīmmō [...] | that Ahi'immoh [...] |
| והרם ש[א]ל על מז[בח קוס | wəhērīm Šā[ʾu]l ʿal mīz[baḥ Qōs | And may Sa[u]l lift [it] (up) upon (the) al[tar of Qos, |
| פן י]חמד האכל | pen ye]ḥmad hāʾoḵel | lest] the food become leavened |
References
For a list of words relating to Edomite language, see the Edomite language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- the Linguist List
- ^ ISBN 978-90-04-17642-3.
- S2CID 189509857– via utexas.edu.
- ^ Vanderhooft, David S. (1995). "The Edomite Dialect and Script: A Review of Evidence". p. 142.
- ISBN 978-3-16-151676-4. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
While we were fortunate enough to have a major inscription, the Mesha Stone, for Moabite, we are much less fortunate as regards Edomite. Here we are reliant on a few short and fragmentary inscriptions and a number of seals.
- OCLC 1025228731.
- ISBN 9789652207081.
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