Yiddish

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Yiddish ייִדיש, from Yidish Daytsh (short for Jidisch Dajtsch), from Middle High German jüdisch diutsch (Jewish German), cognate with German jüdisch (Jewish). (also called Judeo-German, Judendeutsch; see Ashkenazi)

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Particularly: “unlcear whether "Yidish Daytsh" and "Jidisch Dajtsch" are transliterations of Yiddish or (Middle) High German”

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Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish)

Positive
Yiddish

Comparative
more Yiddish

Superlative
most Yiddish

  1. Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
  2. (informal) Jewish.

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Yiddish

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Yiddish (uncountable)

  1. A West Germanic 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 written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.

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