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Targum

A Targum is an Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible, read aloud in synagogues once Hebrew had stopped being spoken. The word goes back to an Akkadian word for 'interpreter', which, by another road, also gave English 'dragoman'.

Weakest linkProbable

The road to English

From Akkadian to Syriac, Arabic, Byzantine Greek, Middle English

1900 BCEAkkadian

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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