ייִדיש
See also: יידיש
Yiddish
Alternative forms
- אידיש (idish)
- יודיש (yudish) – daytshmerish
Etymology
From Middle High German jüdesch, from Old High German judeisc, derived from judo, judeo + -isc, the former from Latin iūdaeus (“Judaean, Jew”), from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), derived from Ῐ̓ούδᾱ (Ioúdā, “Juda”) + -ιος (-ios), the former from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yəhūḏāh). By surface analysis, ייִד (yid) + ־יש (-ish).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjɪdɪʃ/
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Proper noun
ייִדיש • (yidish) n
- Yiddish, a spoken language of the Ashkenazi Jewish people.
- 2020 April 24, Mikhail Krutikov, “װי פּאָליטיש זײַנען ייִדישע לימודים?”, in Forverts:
- אין סאָװעטן־פֿאַרבאַנד איז ייִדיש דערקלערט געװאָרן ווי „די‟ ייִדישע שפּראַך, אַנטקעגן העברעיִש, װאָס איז געװאָרן טריף־פּסול װי די שפּראַך פֿון רעליגיע און ציוניזם.
- in sovetn-farband iz yidish derklert gevorn vi „di‟ yidishe shprakh, antkegn hebreish, vos iz gevorn treyf-posl vi di shprakh fun religye un tsienizm.
- In the Soviet Union Yiddish was declared to be "the" Jewish language, opposed to Hebrew, which became anathema as the language of religion and Zionism.
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Hyponyms
- כּלל־ייִדיש (klal-yidish, “standard Yiddish”)
- מערבֿ־ייִדיש (mayrev-yidish)
- מיטל־ייִדיש (mitl-yidish), פּויליש (poylish)
- צפֿון־מזרח־ייִדיש (tsofn-mizrekh-yidish), ליטוויש (litvish)
- דרום־מזרח־ייִדיש (dorem-mizrekh-yidish), אוקרײַניש (ukraynish)
Derived terms
- ייִדישן (yidishn)
- ייִדישקייט (yidishkeyt)
- ייִדישקע (yidishke)
- ייִדיש־קינד (yidish-kind)
Descendants
Descendants
- → Afrikaans: Jiddisj
- → Albanian: jidisht
- → Arabic: يِدِيشِيَّة (yidīšiyya), إِيدِيش (ʾīdīš)
- → Aragonese: yídix
- → Azerbaijani: idiş
- → Belarusian: і́дыш (ídyš)
- → Bulgarian: и́диш (ídiš)
- → Catalan: ídix, jiddisch
- → Chinese: 意第緒／意第绪 (yìdìxù)
- → Czech: jidiš
- → Danish: jiddisch
- → Dutch: Jiddisch
- → English: Yiddish
- → Esperanto: Jidiŝo
- → Estonian: jidiši
- → Faroese: jiddiskur, jiddiskt
- → Finnish: jiddiš
- → French: yiddish, yidiche, yidich, yiddisch
- → Georgian: იდიში (idiši)
- → German: Jiddisch, jiddisch
- → Greek: γίντις (gíntis)
- → Hebrew: אִידִישׁ (idish)
- → Hindi: यिडिश (yiḍiś)
- → Hungarian: jiddis
- → Italian: yiddish
- → Japanese: イディッシュ (Idisshu)
- → Korean: 이디시 (idisi)
- → Ladino: idish
- → Latvian: jidišs
- → Lithuanian: jidiš
- → Macedonian: ји́диш (jídiš)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: jiddisch
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: jiddisch
- → Persian: ییدیش (yidiš)
- → Polish: jidysz
- → Portuguese: iídiche
- → Romanian: idiș
- → Russian: и́диш (ídiš), аи́дыше (aídyše)
- → Armenian: իդիշ (idiš)
- → Serbo-Croatian: jidiš, јидиш
- → Slovak: jidiš
- → Slovene: jidiš
- → Spanish: yidis
- → Swedish: jiddisch
- → Thai: ยิดดิช (yítdìt)
- Turkish: Yidiş
- → Ukrainian: їдиш (jidyš)
Adjective
ייִדיש • (yidish)
- Jewish
- 2020 April 24, Mikhail Krutikov, “װי פּאָליטיש זײַנען ייִדישע לימודים?”, in Forverts:
- אין סאָװעטן־פֿאַרבאַנד איז ייִדיש דערקלערט געװאָרן ווי „די‟ ייִדישע שפּראַך, אַנטקעגן העברעיִש, װאָס איז געװאָרן טריף־פּסול װי די שפּראַך פֿון רעליגיע און ציוניזם.
- in sovetn-farband iz yidish derklert gevorn vi „di‟ yidishe shprakh, antkegn hebreish, vos iz gevorn treyf-posl vi di shprakh fun religye un tsienizm.
- In the Soviet Union Yiddish was declared to be "the" Jewish language, opposed to Hebrew, which became anathema as the language of religion and Zionism.
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- Yiddish
- 2020 April 24, Mikhail Krutikov, “װי פּאָליטיש זײַנען ייִדישע לימודים?”, in Forverts:
- די מאָדערנע ייִדישע ליטעראַטור איז געװען פּאָליטיש אַנגאַזשירט פֿון די סאַמע ערשטע יאָרן.
- di moderne yidishe literatur iz geven politish angazhirt fun di same ershte yorn.
- Modern Yiddish literature has been politically engaged from the very first years.
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Declension
Declension of ייִדיש
| predicative | ייִדיש yidish | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | masculine | neuter | feminine | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | post./nom. | ||||
| nominative | ייִדישער yidisher | ייִדיש yidish | ייִדישע yidishe | ייִדישס yidishs | ייִדישע yidishe | ייִדישע yidishe |
| accusative | ייִדישן yidishn | |||||
| dative | ייִדישן yidishn | ייִדישער yidisher | ||||
Derived terms
- ייִדישקייט (yidishkeyt)
- ייִדישן (yidishn)