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Yid·dish (yidis̸h)

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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  3. Ygdrasil
  4. Yezo
  5. yew
  6. Yevtushenko
  7. yeti
  8. yet
  9. yesteryear
  10. yesternight
  1. Yiddishism
  2. Yiddishist
  3. Yiddishkeit
  4. yield
  5. yield chaser
  6. yield curve
  7. yield spread
  8. yield spread analysis
  9. yield-to-call
  10. yield-to-maturity