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Bnei Berak 10
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 3:09 pm
Ladle is also a fully proper English word but in English it's a dipper or spoon.
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amother
Pewter
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 3:13 pm
It's a German/Yiddish word.
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amother
Outerspace
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 3:16 pm
gamanit wrote: | By the same token you can say there's no English. Languages grow and change over time. That's how it works. |
Even more so with Yiddish than other languages because by definition it’s a borrowed language.
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Highstrung
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 3:22 pm
giftedmom wrote: | Fun fact I didn’t know the word schnitzel as a kid. It was איבערגעצויגן פלייש. |
I actually thought schnitzel was a Hebrew word. We grew up saying breaded cutlets . The Yiddish speaking people called it פלייש איבערגעצויגן . I always saw schnitzel on Israeli menus so thought it was Hebrew
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bigsis144
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 3:33 pm
Ladle is an English word:
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amother
Orchid
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 3:33 pm
But it's also a yiddish word.
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amother
Pink
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 3:40 pm
There are quite a few words that sound the same in Yiddish and English but have different meaning.
גראב-grub
Guy-''ג
d!ck-דיק
Heist-הייסט
Hint-הינט
Etc etc
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amother
Anemone
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 3:44 pm
I grew up in strictly Yiddish speaking house (besides the typical English words used by everyone, like fridge, garbage etc) and we used the word hectic. I thought it was Yiddish word for a very long time.
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amother
Crimson
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 4:00 pm
amother Anemone wrote: | I grew up in strictly Yiddish speaking house (besdies the typical English words used by everyone, like fridge, garbage etc) and we used the word hectic. I thought it was Yiddish word for a very long time. |
Then there's words like
Busy, but, available, no, and a million other words that I laugh when my kids ask me for the english word for it
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YounginBP
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 4:14 pm
You can all stop fighting ..
Slippers is שטעק שיך
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amother
Green
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 5:01 pm
peace2 wrote: | On the flip side, I grew up with zero yiddish words used at home so there were words that I never knew were yiddish like shissel - for some reason my mother used that one yiddish word but I always thought it was English. Oh and I guess she said pulke for drumstick but literally nothing else |
Pulka is Hungarian.
It's the bottom part (drum stick and the other part attached to it) of a chicken.
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giftedmom
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 5:03 pm
YounginBP wrote: | You can all stop fighting ..
Slippers is שטעק שיך |
And mother is mutter
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farm
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 5:07 pm
This thread is so cute, enjoying immensely 😆
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amother
Lawngreen
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 5:15 pm
My friend thought decrepit was Yiddish.
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Slategray
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 5:18 pm
I thought connive was Yiddish. When we learned parshas Shmos in high school, my chumash teacher dramatized about "conniving Paroh" and "Paroh, such a conniver". Lol
My friend, as a child, thought Pamela was a Yiddish name.
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amother
Ghostwhite
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 5:19 pm
Is nosh Yiddish? I always thought almuni was Yiddish.
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Tao
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 5:27 pm
Also, karg (stingy) is a yiddish word. Who knew?
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