interwiktionary|code=yi
English
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Pronunciation
yĭd'ĭsh, /�jɪdɪ�/, /<tt>"jIdIS</tt>/

Etymology
Yiddish ��ִ��ש, from Yidish Daytsh (Jidisch Dajtsch), or Jewish German (also called Judeo-German, Judendeutsch); cognate with the German word jüdisch.

Adjective
Yiddish

1. Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
2. colloquial Jewish

Translations
trans-top|of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
Dutch: Jiddisch, Jiddisj
French: yiddish m|f
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Hebrew: ����ש��|�ִ��ִ�שָ��ִ� (idišai)
Italian: yiddish m
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trans-top|Jewish
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Noun
Yiddish

1. A West Germanic 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 written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.

Related terms
Yiddishist

Translations

Catalan: Yiddish
Chinese: �第绪语 (Yìdìxù y�)
Czech: jidiš m
Danish: Jiddisch
Dutch: Jiddisch n, Jiddisj n
Esperanto: Jido, Jida lingvo
French: yiddish m
German: Jiddisch, Jidisch
Greek: γίν�ι� (yídis)
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Hebrew: ����ש|�ִ��ִ�ש� (yidiš), ����ש (idiš)
Italian: yiddish m
Polish: jidysz m
Romanian: Idi�
Russian: иди� (ídiš) m
Swedish: Jiddisch
Yiddish: ��ִ��ש (yidish)

See also
��ִ� (Jew|Yid) m

External links
ethnologue|langEastern Yiddish|codeydd
ethnologue|langWestern Yiddish|codeyih

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