Associations to the word «Edomite»

Wiktionary

EDOMITE, noun. (biblical) A person descended from Esau (Edom).
EDOMITE, proper noun. A Canaanite Semitic language spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan in the first millennium BCE, extinct from the 6th century BCE.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats