עמעצער
Yiddish
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Probably from Middle High German (ich) enweiz wer (“I don’t know who”), a common construction expressing indefiniteness. Compare formally Romanian niște (“some”) from Latin nescio quid (“I don’t know what”).
Pronoun
עמעצער • (emetser) m
Further reading
- Map of dialectal variants for "somebody" from Litvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish by Dovid Katz