Aramæism

Formed in English from Aramæan +‎ -ism by swapping -an with -ism.

Aramæism (countable and uncountable, plural Aramæisms)

1. (hypercorrect, rare) Archaic spelling of Aramaeism, misconstruction of Aramaism
   • 1860, “The Chaldaisms of the Book of Ecclesiastes”, in Evangelical Christendom. Its State and Prospects, volume 14, page 508:

     the form וַיֵחַמְנָח, which occurs in Gen. xxx. 38, is not an Aramæism, but a more ancient form of the 3rd pers. plur. fem. imperf., coinciding with the Arabic يَقْتُلْنَ.

   • 1878, Andrew Robert Fausset, The Church and the world, London: Hatchards, page 39:

     The Aramæism ש for אשר is to be expected in the oldest Scriptures, where Hebrew and Aramaic were closely joined as kindred dialects.

The suffix -aeismus (or -æismus) is a hypercorrect form not attested in Classical Latin, as it would imply a Greek -αϊισμός (-aïismós), which does not exist. Greek formations use -αϊσμός (-aïsmós) instead, Latinized as -aismus: e.g. Ancient Greek Ἰουδαϊσμός (Ioudaïsmós) (Latin iudaismus), from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos) (Latin iudaeus).