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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Yiddish ייִדיש־דוײַטש (yidish-daytsh), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish)
- Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
- (informal) Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.
- Synonym: Jewish
- Yiddish cooking; Yiddish music
Translations
[edit]of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
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Jewish — see Jewish
Proper noun
[edit]Yiddish
- A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, 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 mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.
- Synonym: Jewish
- Holonym: High German
- Meronyms: Eastern Yiddish, East Yiddish, Western Yiddish, West Yiddish
- 1983, Philip Baldi, An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages, page 128:
- Yiddish is a High German language [...] two varieties of Yiddish developed [...]
Related terms
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- ISO 639-1 code yi, ISO 639-3 code yid (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Yiddish, yid , a macrolanguage including:
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