elistic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Containing reference to the Semitic god ʔil.
adj
Alternative spelling of Elistic.
Example Sentences
- "In due time she conceived and bore a son who was given the Elistic name שְׁמוּאֵל (1 Sam 1:20), […]"
- "Some scholars adopting the Qenite hypothesis in its original or modified form, which supposes that the Qenites were the mediators of the Yahwistic cult to Israel, assume that Yhwh was a North Arabian storm god, a rival of the Canaanite Baal who gradually adopted Elistic qualities."
- "The Arabic tradition transmits a number of South Arabian elistic personal names of the type verb+ . […] In this paper, I look at the elistic names s²rḥʾl / s²rhbʾl and compare them with how they occur in non-Arabic sources. […] A similar elistic name is that of tawbīl, which corresponds to ṯwbʾl in the ESA corpora. […] If the hamza would have been retained when the South Arabian elistic names were borrowed into Arabic and lost at a later moment in time, one would expect […] In the North Arabian Arabic inscriptions written in Greek, elistic names in which the theophoric element occurs in post-vocalic position are consistently spelled with epsilon […] Conclusions […] That this vowel was originally long and was not the result of compensatory lengthening is further supported by the attestation of other South Arabian onomastics in Arabic, as well as by Greek transcriptions of South Arabian elistic names."
Etymology
From El + -istic, relative adjective to Elism.