Yiddish
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- noun
- /ˈjɪdɪʃ/
- Many Jewish communities in Eastern Europe traditionally spoke Yiddish, which combines elements of German and Hebrew.
- speak Yiddish
- write in Yiddish
- know Yiddish
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- People like me who were raised speaking Yiddish pronounce it shabuus.
- It's the German language has Mensch, which is also used in Yiddish, which is a German word has Mensch means both man or woman.
- It's one of the reasons why Yiddish still exists as a language is is created in Padolia after the Poles come back.
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Examples
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No matter how many Yiddish books we had in the house, there were never enough.
Fiction book (1995) -
Bubby is the Yiddish word for grandmother, and while I'm at it, Zeyda means grandfather.
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"No one in our family knew Yiddish, but Mother knew that word very well."
Fiction book (1994) -
Like any great language, of course, Yiddish will never die out entirely.
Academic text (2000) -
At home they spoke Yiddish, a language my father somehow managed not to learn.
Fiction book (1994) -
At home, they once spoke only Yiddish, though now, our mother assured us, they spoke English.
Fiction book (1990) -
Ninety percent of the works were written in Yiddish, with the rest in English, German, and Hebrew.
Academic text (1998) -
Until the Holocaust, Yiddish was the spoken language of two-thirds of the world's Jews.
Academic text (2000) -
I remember, for example, attending the centennial celebration for the Yiddish Forward, known in Yiddish as the Forverts.
Academic text (2000) -
It's a word from Yiddish that means audacity, so it means worlds or insolence or cheek.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yiddish comes from the old word for 'Jew' — in Yiddish it's yidish and in German it's jüdisch, both meaning 'Jewish'. So Yiddish is the 'Jewish' language that grew from German, picked up words from Hebrew and other languages, and was traditionally spoken by Jews in central and eastern Europe.