Yiddish
Meanings
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
- Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.
Proper Noun
- A West Germanic 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 written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.
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Origin
- Yiddish ייִדיש, from Yidish Daytsh, from Middle High German jüdisch diutsch, cognate with German jüdisch ("Jewish").
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