Yiddish

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
2. (informal) Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.

Name

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.

Conceptos

yiddish

yídish

yidis

Yiddish

ídish

Ídish

Sinónimos

the Yiddish language

mother tongue

talk

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Yiddish language

Traducciones

yiddish

Jiddisch

yiddish

Jiddisch

jiddisch

iídiche

Γίντις

γίντις

Jiddisj

yidîşî

Iídiche

yidiche

língua iídiche

Yiddish

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con alemán: jüdisch

In summary

From Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Middle High German jüdisch (in reference to the language, more fully jüdischdiutsch (literally “Jewish-German”)). By surface analysis, Yid + -ish.