Yiddish 
Yiddish definition
Yid·dish (yid′is̸h)
noun
a language derived from Middle High German, spoken by East European Jews and their descendants in other countries: it is written in the Hebrew alphabet and contains vocabulary borrowings from Hebrew, Russian, Polish, English, etc.: abbrev. Yid or Yidd
Etymology: Yiddish yidish, for Ger jüdisch-(deutsch), Jewish-(German) < jüdisch, Jewish < Jude, a Jew < L Judaeus: see Jew
adjective
of or in this language
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