yiddish
IPA: jˈɪdɪʃ
Root Word: Yiddish
noun
- 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.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
- (informal) Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.
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Examples of "yiddish" in Sentences
- Sorry about the hebrew and yiddish.
- She was a star of the Yiddish theater.
- Hebrew and Yiddish are the same script.
- Effect on the Yiddish language and culture.
- There are also a smattering of Yiddish words.
- A lexicographer and Yiddish scholar he is not.
- In Yiddish it is , with the stress on the first syllable.
- The aphorism was first published by the Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich.
- She studied first in Yiddish, then in English and then again in Yiddish.
- He never went to a secular Yiddish school where Yiddish was taught as a basic subject and where other subjects as well were taught in Yiddish.