Talk:קאַוועניק

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קאַוועניק

Created by @Embryomystic in 2010. I'm no coffee drinker, and the word looks believable, but almost nothing turns up online. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:16, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

It looks like a loan of Russian кофеник.  --Lambiam 11:30, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Uriel Weinreich, Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary, 1968 (1st ed.), page 356, has it, with the same gender. Yiddish is a LDL, right? ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 13:11, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Also listed in a Yiddish-Russion dictionary.  --Lambiam 21:24, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

I didn't check my dictionaries, almost hoping that we wouldn't have this issue. I guess it'll pass RFV, but I worry that if I ask an academic Yiddishist, I'll learn that Weinreich coined it. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:02, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

The Russian term is кофе́йник (koféjnik), кафени́к (kafeník) is Bulgarian.

Is it possible that there are other Yiddish spellings, and קאַוועניק (kavenik) is a normalised spelling or the term is mostly colloquial, seldom used in writing? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:01, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

• RFV passed. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 17:35, 7 May 2019 (UTC)