Mame Loshn: The Making of Yiddish |
Contents
The German base | 19 |
The debt to the Holy Tongue | 37 |
The Slavonic connection | 43 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
19th century adjective adopted American English Anglo-Yiddish Aramaic Ashkenazic Jews Ashkenazic surnames Ashkenazim aykh azóy Biblical Cockney compound counterparts Der yid device diminutive Dutch Eastern Europe Eastern Yiddish elements equivalent example familiar family names Gentile German words German-speaking geyt Goyishe Hasidic Hebrew alphabet Holy Tongue identical idiom immigrant influence inspired Jewish communities Jewish names Jewish surnames kinnui Laaz Latin linguistic literally Lithuania London Loshn means mediaeval nokh non-Jewish non-Jews nouns occurs origin oykh Pale of Settlement plural Poland Polish popular prayer pronunciation referred Rhineland Rotwelsch Russian Sabbath Semitic sense Sephardic shtetl shtot slang Slavonic languages Slavonic terms sound speech spoken standard German suffix syllable traditional translation Ukrainian veln verb vernacular vowel Western whilst White Russia Yiddish expressions Yiddish Language Yiddish speakers Yiddish term Yiddish vocabulary Yiddish word Yiddish-speaking yidn Yinglish York Zayt zikh zogt