Chaldese

/kælˈdiz/ noun, adjective

Definition

Relating to or denoting Chaldea or its people; an alternative form of Chaldean used primarily in older texts.

Etymology

A variant form of 'Chaldean' with a French-influenced suffix, used in 17th and 18th-century English scholarly and religious writing.

Kelly Says

Chaldese is now mostly obsolete, but you'll find it in old Bibles and historical texts where different translators and scholars were still experimenting with how to spell and refer to ancient peoples—it's like watching the English language in real-time evolution.

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