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Yiddish

Yiddish is the "Patois" of languages of every eastern European country with any significant Jewish population during the past 600 years. Dormant for a while after the great Jewish migrations of the early 20th Century and the mass exterminations of the 1930s and 40s, it's experiencing a resurgence today.

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How do you spell chuch face in yiddish?

It should be right there, on your birth certificate.

What is yiddish for sympathy?

מיטגעפֿיל, mitgefil.

Also 'rachmones' or 'rachmunes'.

How do you say bed bug in yiddish?

In Yiddish, "bed bug" is referred to as a "bett-khefer."

What is yiddish for matchmaker?

In Yiddish, the word for matchmaker is "shadchan."

How do you say i am lazy in yiddish?

You can say "ikh bin faul" in Yiddish, which translates to "I am lazy" in English.

How do you say welcome in yiddish?

boruch habah. (Or booreech habooh, for a different dialect of Yiddish).

What does dona mean in Yiddish?

"Dona" in Yiddish means "lady" or "woman." It is often used as a term of respect when addressing or referring to a woman.

What does the Yiddish word 'son' mean in English?

The Yiddish word "son" means "soon" in English.

What is the Yiddish word for freedom?

The Yiddish word for freedom is "פֿרייַהייט" (friyayt).

Was Louie Armstrong befriended by a Jewish Family in New Orleans and where he learned to speak Yiddish?

Yes, Louis Armstrong was befriended by the Karnofsky family, who were Jewish immigrants in New Orleans. They provided him with work, food, and a place to stay, and it is believed that Armstrong picked up some Yiddish phrases from them during his time with the family.

What is teacher in Yiddish?

religious teacher: "REB-beh" or "REB-bee"; (almost always male); (from Hebrew)

secular teacher: "LEHR-air" (male) or "LEHR-air-in" (female); (from German)

What is the yiddish word for broken?

צעבראָכן, tsebrokhn (tse-brok-un).

How do you say I am tired in Yiddish?

It can vary by region but one way is "Ich bin mid" which is close to the German "Ich bin müde."

What is the yiddish word for white?

The Yiddish word for white is "vays".

Are there yiddish words with x in them?

Technically no, since Yiddish (though similar to German) is written in the Hebrew alphabet which does not include an X. However, it is commonly transliterated into Roman letters, in which case some words may include an X.

How do you say naked in Yiddish?

The word for naked in Yiddish is "פּלאָט" (plout).

Another Yiddish meaning for idiot?

Schmuck is another Yiddish term that can be used to refer to an idiot.

How do you say go to hell in Yiddish?

"גיי צו גײַנום" (gay tsu gaynum) is how you say "go to hell" in Yiddish.

Why does Yiddish use the Hebrew alphabet if it's a separate language?

Though Yiddish, which uses Hebrew letters, looks similar when written down to a non-speaker of Yiddish or Hebrew, it is in fact an entirely different language.

Hebrew arose in the Middle East and falls into the Afro-Asiatic Semitic family of languages whereas Yiddish is an Indo-European Germanic language that arose in Germany and Eastern Europe - it is similar to Hochdeutsch, High German, which would have been the everyday language of Jews living in those areas (Hebrew would have been used during worship and rarely by women who were not required to learn it due to the outdated Jewish concept that females are "closer to G-d" and more holy than males), but uses the Hebrew letters with which they were familiar.

As it was spoken by Jews in many different nations, from Russia to Western Europe, is is sometimes called the first international language (others being Esperanto and Volupuk).

Yiddish essentially combined Hebrew alphabet and some words with German words and terms and was used by many of the Ashkenazi Jews of Europe.

Why does English use the Latin alphabet if it's a different language?

How do you say lucky in yiddish?

Mazldik is the word for lucky when used on its own, and would be inflected to indicate its use as a feminine adjective as mazldike, masculine would be mazldiker. There are other forms for other grammatical cases.

What is Yiddish word for boyfriend?

The Yiddish word for boyfriend is "manekh."

How do you translate 'shos' from Yiddish into English?

Shos mean to shoot, burst or discharge - as you can see from http://translate.google.com/#yi|en|shos

What is the closest Yiddish equivalent of Mutzi in English?

"Mutzi" in Yiddish is similar to "mooch" or "schnorrer" in English, referring to someone who is constantly looking for handouts or freebies.

What is 'brother' in Yiddish?

'Brother' in Yiddish is 'bruder'.