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There are several Jewish and Hebrew greetings, farewells, and phrases that are used in Judaism, and in Jewish and Hebrew-speaking communities around the world. Even outside Israel , Hebrew is an important part of Jewish life. [ 1 ]
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
The Yiddish word for 'in front of, before' is far, not for or fur. There isn't, according to Weinreich's Dictionary, any Yiddish preposition for. —AJD 04:02, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC) Whoops. Sorry about that, I stand corrected. Must be German creeping in (living in Germany will do that to you). -- Unamuno 09:55, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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Yiddish, [a] historically Judeo-German, [11] [b] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.It originated in 9th-century [12]: 2 Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic.
The phrase "May you live until 120" (Hebrew: עד מאה ועשרים שנה : Ad me'ah ve-essrim shana; Yiddish: ביז הונדערט און צוואַנציק ; Biz hundert un tsvantsik), often written as "till 120", is a traditional Jewish blessing.
The word minyan entered English via Yiddish, though, which is the criterion used on this page. By the standard you imply, words such as latke and knish wouldn't be of Yiddish origin either (they're from Polish prior to Yiddish); and even a native Yiddish word like lox could be described as being of Old High German or Proto–Indo-European origin.