כּלומרשט
Yiddish
Alternative forms
- מכּלומרשט (mikloymersht)
- [script needed] (klompersht)
- [script needed] (miklompersht)
Etymology
From ־שט (-sht) suffixed onto Hebrew כְּלוֹמַר (k'lomár, “that is to say”), from כְּ־ (k'-, “as”) + לוֹמַר (lomár), infinitive of אָמַר ('amár, “to say”).
Adverb
כּלומרשט • (kloymersht)
- as if, as though, as it were
- 1894, שלום־עליכם (sholem-aleyhkem, “Sholem Aleichem”), “דאָס גרויסע געווינס (dos groyse gevins)”, in טבֿיה דער מילכיקער (tevye der milkhiker, “Tevye the Dairyman”):