yidis

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish).

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈʝidis/ [ˈɟ͡ʝi.ð̞is] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃidis/ [ˈʃi.ð̞is] (Buenos Aires and environs)
  • IPA(key): /ˈʒidis/ [ˈʒi.ð̞is] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

  • Rhymes: -idis
  • Syllabification: yi‧dis

Proper noun

yidis m

  1. Yiddish (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)

Further reading

  • “yidis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
  • Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “yidish”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
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