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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.
A pair of yods with a horizontal line under them, ײַ, represents the diphthong [aj] in standard Yiddish. The digraph consisting of a vov followed by a yod, וי, represents the diphthong [oj]. In traditional as well as in YIVO orthography, Loanwords from Hebrew or Aramaic in Yiddish are spelled as they are in their language of origin. In ...
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).
Zalman (זלמן) is a Yiddish-language variant of Solomon. The name was common among European Jews, and it still has usage in many Haredi and especially Hasidic communities all over the world. Some of the founders of modern Israel bore this name, including Zalman Shazar, the third Israeli president. Nowadays this is not a common name in the ...
For example, the Yiddish "to be" is זײַן, which orthographically matches Dutch zijn more than German sein, or Yiddish הױז, "house", versus Dutch huis (plural huizen). Along with the pronunciation of Dutch g as /ɣ/, Yiddish is said to sound closer to Dutch than to German because of that even though its structure is closer to High German.
Zelig (Yiddish: זעליג, Hebrew: זליג) is a masculine given name and surname, meaning "blessed" in Yiddish. Variants of the name include Zelik (Yiddish: זעליק) and Selig (Yiddish: סעליג). The name is traditionally paired with the Hebrew name Asher. [1] [2] Notable people with the name include:
Vestiges of this earlier pronunciation are still found throughout the Yiddish-speaking world in names like Yankev (יעקבֿ) and words like manse (מעשׂה, more commonly pronounced mayse), but are otherwise marginal. ת ungeminated ṯāw is pronounced in Ashkenazi Hebrew. It is always pronounced in Modern and Sephardi Hebrew.
[84] [dubious – discuss] Yiddish emerged as a result of Judeo-Latin language contact with various High German vernaculars in the medieval period. [9] It is a Germanic language written in Hebrew letters, and heavily influenced by Hebrew and Aramaic, with some elements of Romance and later Slavic languages. [85] [better source needed]