Ashkenazim
pronunciation
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Word Origin
- Ashkenazim (n.)
- (plural) "central and northern European Jews" (as opposed to Sephardim, Jews of Spain and Portugal), 1839, from Hebrew Ashkenazzim, plural of Ashkenaz, eldest son of Gomer (Gen. x:3), also the name of a people mentioned in Jer. li:27 (perhaps akin to Greek skythoi "Scythians," compare Akkadian ishkuzai); identified historically with various people; in Middle Ages, with the Germans.
Example
- 1. Their mitochondria , unlike those of the ashkenazim , give no sign of a recent bottleneck . Their dna show instead how porous the boundaries of faith may be .
- 2. Researchers argue that it 's highly unlikely that mutated genes responsible for these illness could have reached such high levels in ashkenazim if they were not connected to cognitive performance .
- 3. His argument is that the unusual history of the ashkenazim has subjected them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this paradoxical state of affairs .