Yiddish

See also: yiddish and yíddish

English

Etymology

From Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Middle High German jüdisch (in reference to the language, more fully jüdischdiutsch (literally “Jewish-German”)).[1] By surface analysis, Yid +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: yĭd'ĭsh, IPA(key): /ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/
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Adjective

Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
    • 2015 December 22, Justin Wm. Moyer, “Donald Trump’s ‘schlonged’: A linguistic investigation”, in The Washington Post‎[1], archived from the original on 24 December 2015:
      “Many goyim are confused by the large number of Yiddish terms beginning with ‘schl’ or ‘schm’ (schlemiel, schlemazzle, schmeggegge, schlub, schlock, schlep, schmutz, schnook), and use them incorrectly or interchangeably,” he wrote.
  2. (informal) Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.
    Synonym: Jewish
    Yiddish cooking; Yiddish music

Translations

Proper noun

Yiddish

  2. A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.
    Synonym: Jewish
    Holonym: High German
    Meronyms: Eastern Yiddish, East Yiddish, Western Yiddish, West Yiddish
    • 1983, Philip Baldi, An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages, page 128:
      Yiddish is a High German language [...] two varieties of Yiddish developed [...]

Translations

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Yiddish terms

References

  1. ^ “Yiddish, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

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