| Definitions | | Yiddish |
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noun
- 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.
Translations: - Dutch: Jiddisch , Jiddisj
- French: yiddish
- German: Jiddisch, Jidisch
- Italian: yiddish
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
- (colloquial) Jewish
Translations: - Dutch: Jiddisch, Jiddisj
- French: yiddish
- Italian: yiddish
Etymology: Yiddish Ö, from Yidish Daytsh (Jidisch Dajtsch), or Jewish German (also called Judeo-German, Judendeutsch); cognate with the German word jídisch.
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