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Mimisinger
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 Sat, Sep 06 2014, 8:31 pm
My grandmother's first language was Yiddish but none of us speak or understand it.
My father was remembering a term: "laim’n a’gailem" or something like that but couldn't remember what it meant. He went online and couldn't find a definition. Can you help?
Thank you!
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dimyona
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Sat, Sep 06 2014, 8:34 pm
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My first language is Yiddish but I'm completely stumped by that phrase. Is it possible that the words are broken up differently, or that some consonants are mixed up? What is the context?
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proudmother1
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Sat, Sep 06 2014, 8:53 pm
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not quite translation - but implies -dumbell
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rdmom
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Sat, Sep 06 2014, 9:00 pm
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Literal translation is a statue made of stone. Meant to imply a dumbbell. Or a klutz.
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Lady Bug
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Sat, Sep 06 2014, 9:05 pm
| rdmom wrote: | | Literal translation is a statue made of stone. Meant to imply a dumbbell. Or a klutz. |
Yes. ליימענע גולם
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Zehava
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Sat, Sep 06 2014, 9:09 pm
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Probably taken from the story of the goilem in prag, made from leim, clay. Means an idiot.
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dimyona
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Sat, Sep 06 2014, 9:19 pm
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Now I get it. Yeah, it means clay goilem.
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Mimisinger
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Sat, Sep 06 2014, 10:03 pm
Thank you all! You've solved the mystery 
Yiddish computer dictionary: 0 Imamother: 1!
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kitov
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Sun, Sep 07 2014, 2:19 am
| Mimisinger wrote: | Thank you all! You've solved the mystery
Yiddish computer dictionary: 0 Imamother: 1! | thats bec the yiddish computer dictionary is a leimene goilim!
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Dolly1
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Sun, Sep 07 2014, 2:34 am
| kitov wrote: | | thats bec the yiddish computer dictionary is a leimene goilim! | 
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