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Good holiday! [ɡut ˈjɔntɛv] Yiddish Used as a greeting for the holidays. [2] Often spelled Gut Yontif or Gut Yontiff in English transliteration. Gut'n Mo'ed: גוטן מועד: Good ḥol hamoed [ˈɡutn̩ ˈmɔjɛd] Yiddish As above (as a greeting during the chol ha-moed (intermediate days) of the Passover and Sukkot holidays), but Yiddish ...
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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).
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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)
The word has migrated as a loanword into American English, where a mensch is a particularly good person, similar to a "stand-up guy", a person with the qualities one would hope for in a friend or trusted colleague. [5] Mentshlekhkeyt (Yiddish: מענטשלעכקייט; German: Menschlichkeit) refers to the properties which make a person a mensch.
"Mazel tov" (Yiddish: מזל טוב, romanized: mázl tov) or "mazal tov" (Hebrew: מזל טוב, romanized: mazál tov; lit. "good fortune") is a Jewish phrase used to express congratulations for a happy and significant occasion or event.
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.