Yiddish
pronunciation
How to pronounce Yiddish in British English:
UK [ˈjɪdɪʃ]
How to pronounce Yiddish in American English:
US [ˈjɪdɪʃ]
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- Noun:
- a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
Word Origin
- Yiddish (n.)
- 1875, from Yiddish yidish, from Middle High German jüdisch "Jewish" (in phrase jüdisch deutsch "Jewish-German"), from jude "Jew," from Old High German judo, from Latin Judaeus (see Jew). The English word has been re-borrowed in German as jiddisch. As an adjective from 1886. Related: Yiddishism.
Example
- 1. He spoke polish , yiddish and russian .
- 2. Was yiddish a degenerate linguistic compromise , or the essential literary and political medium ?
- 3. She takes in the development of yiddish , dutch , icelandic and of course english , as well as others .
- 4. E-communications provide some hope of keeping at bay all the forces which threaten the existence of diasporas , especially small ones : assimilation ( seen in the decline of once-mighty tongues like yiddish and latino ) and the danger of irrelevance as the world moves on .