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Yiddish

(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. or

Origin: Yiddish yidish, for Ger jüdisch-(deutsch), Jewish-(German) < jüdisch, Jewish < Jude, a Jew < L Judaeus: see Jew

adjective

of or in this language

See Yiddish in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The language historically of Ashkenazic Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, resulting from a fusion of elements derived principally from medieval German dialects and secondarily from Hebrew and Aramaic, various Slavic languages, and Old French and Old Italian.

Origin:

Origin: Yiddish yidish, Jewish, Yiddish

Origin: , from Middle High German jüdisch, Jewish

Origin: , from jude, jüde, Jew

Origin: , from Old High German judo

Origin: , from Latin Iūdaeus; see Jew

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