Yiddish
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Yiddish The etymology of this word is mostly obscure. ייִדיש, from Yidish Daytsh, from Middle High German jüdisch diutsch (“Jewish German”), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish”). (also called Judeo-German, Judendeutsch; see Ashkenazi)
Since Jewish Germans (or Yiddish) had to exist before a Yiddish language could be created, the term is probably Middle High German, rather than Yiddish.
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Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish)
- Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
- (informal) Jewish.
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of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
Jewish
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Yiddish (uncountable)
- 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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