Words that you thought were Yiddish

GrowingUp

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:01 am

I just heard that someone always thought the word “farfetched” is Yiddish. It totally makes sense.

I only found out in my teens that “tuition” wasn’t a Yiddish word. With my wonderful knowledge I had of Yiddish (based on my BY Chumash class teitch sheets) I thought that tuition means in between. Like an agreement between parents and the school.

What are your “Yiddish” words?

amother

Pewter

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:06 am

I'm not following. Why would you think tuition is yiddish? It's used primarily in the English language and is not one of the words that has become 'Yiddishized'
If English is your first language, how would you not know it's an English word?

peace2

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:07 am

Lol I totally get you!
I always thought dais was a yiddish or Hebrew word... like the Rabbis sitting on the dais at the dinner
Tumult like chavrusa tumult

gamanit

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:09 am

Hi, it sounds like you thought tzvishin and tuition were the same word. Tzvishin is the yiddish word for in between. Tumult is also a yiddish word. There are words that are the same in both.

GrowingUp

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:10 am

amother Pewter wrote:

English is my first and only language.

Idk, it sounded like a Yiddish word to me. I only heard the term tuition used for Jewish schools. I read a lot, never came across it in secular books. I did find out eventually at around 14-15 years old that it’s not Yiddish.

amother

Pewter

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:11 am

gamanit wrote:

Hi, it sounds like you thought tzvishin and tuition were the same word. Tzvishin is the yiddish word for in between. Tumult is also a yiddish word. There are words that are the same in both.

Tumult is not a Yiddish word, it comes from either a French word or a Latin one
The Yiddish word is Tummel

GrowingUp

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:12 am

peace2 wrote:

Lol I totally get you!
I always thought dais was a yiddish or Hebrew word... like the Rabbis sitting on the dais at the dinner
Tumult like chavrusa tumult

I guess words that we hear in Jewish context, we just assume are Yiddish/Hebrew.

lucky14

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:12 am

peace2 wrote:

Lol I totally get you!
I always thought dais was a yiddish or Hebrew word... like the Rabbis sitting on the dais at the dinner
Tumult like chavrusa tumult

And I have never heard that word before. Learned a new one today.

gamanit

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:12 am

amother Pewter wrote:

Tumult is not a Yiddish word, it comes from either a French word or a Latin one
The Yiddish word is Tummel

Similar enough Smile

amother

Thistle

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:13 am

I always thought frigidaire was Yiddish for refrigerator.

On the other hand, when I went to the Seagate kimpeturin heim,I learned how to say diapers and wipes in Yiddish: pampers and fresh wipes!

amother

Plum

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:13 am

Paputch is not Yiddish.
It’s not English either.
IYKYK

gamanit

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:15 am

amother Plum wrote:

Paputch is not Yiddish.
It’s not English either.
IYKYK

It's Hungarian

peace2

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:16 am

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

giftedmom

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:17 am

amother Plum wrote:

Paputch is not Yiddish.
It’s not English either.
IYKYK

It’s just as Yiddish as shmatte and mamme

amother

Orchid

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:22 am

gamanit wrote:

Hi, it sounds like you thought tzvishin and tuition were the same word. Tzvishin is the yiddish word for in between. Tumult is also a yiddish word. There are words that are the same in both.

Tumult is not a yiddish word.
Tumul is a yiddish word.

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Goldengoose

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:24 am

GrowingUp wrote:

you probably mixed up with the word "tzvishen" or however you spell that. that is yiddish and means between.

amother

DarkOrange

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:25 am

My friend says that Febreeze totally sounds like a Yiddish word LOL

peace2

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:27 am

amother Pewter wrote:

Tumult is not a Yiddish word, it comes from either a French word or a Latin one
The Yiddish word is Tummel

I guess it's really chavrusa tummel but I just never knew they were two different words so I assumed it's tumult. They basically mean the same thing tho