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I've come across the transliteration (into Yiddish) סיראוועטקע (''siravetke'') (or possibly סיראוועסקע (''siraveske''): the type is hard to read). From the context, it should mean "[[yogurt]]" or something like it. Does anyone know what word this is a transliteration of, in what language, and what it means, please?<span class="Unicode">&#x200b;—[[User:Msh210|msh210]]℠</span> ([[user talk:Msh210|talk]]) 09:07, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
I've come across the transliteration (into Yiddish) סיראוועטקע (''siravetke'') (or possibly סיראוועסקע (''siraveske''): the type is hard to read). From the context, it should mean "[[yogurt]]" or something like it. Does anyone know what word this is a transliteration of, in what language, and what it means, please?<span class="Unicode">&#x200b;—[[User:Msh210|msh210]]℠</span> ([[user talk:Msh210|talk]]) 09:07, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

:[[סיראוועטקע]] (whey) from Ukrainian [[сироватка]]. [[User:Stephen G. Brown|—Stephen]] <sup>([[User talk:Stephen G. Brown|Talk]])</sup> 10:20, 4 November 2013 (UTC)