Words that you thought were Yiddish

amother

Crimson

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 9:48 pm

amother Tomato wrote:

This thread is really funny!

Anyone know the language and meaning for any of the following words?

Forshirt

Bundash

Hungarian >yiddish
Patties (most commonly chicken)
French toast

You speak yiddish or you really don't know?

Mindfully

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 9:56 pm

A word I thought was yiddish is
Gross like yuk, its gross
This thread is getting me confused!

dankbar

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 9:57 pm

Conniptions like your stomach is in knipen knots

amother

Lotus

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:06 pm

dankbar wrote:

Conniptions like your stomach is in knipen knots

Is it yiddish or english?

WhatFor

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:19 pm

I always through the word "yarmulke" was Yiddish until a few years ago someone on this site said to put the word "skullcap" into google translate, set the desired language to Polish, and listen. My mind was blown. But I guess a lot of Yiddish is like that.

I think I also used to think "onus" might be Yiddish.

amother

Moccasin

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:35 pm

Yarmulka comes from Aramaic

amother

Crimson

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 11:14 pm

amother Orchid wrote:

Tumult is not a yiddish word.
Tumul is a yiddish word.

Just had to come back to say that actually both are yiddish.
Tumul is a noun, tumult is the verb form.
עס טומלט אין די גאסן!
א גערויש אין הימל, עס טוט זיך א טומל...

LovesHashem

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 11:18 pm

amother Jade wrote:

Here in Israel the Yiddish speakers say Auto (in Israeli accent) for car

But that's what Hebrew speakers say too

My 2 cents

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 11:38 pm

Yarmulke comes from the 2 words yerei Malka. ( literally fear of the king.)

Reality

Fri, Feb 09 2024, 12:09 am

My 2 cents wrote:

Yarmulke comes from the 2 words yerei Malka. ( literally fear of the king.)

The etymology of yarmulke is a little grey. Another possible explanation not mentioned yet is it's one of the few words that we have from the khazarian language. As per Dr. Abramson. I thought that was fascinating.

amother

Strawberry

Fri, Feb 09 2024, 2:19 am

lol I used to think the word naive was Yiddish 😊

amother

Pumpkin

Fri, Feb 09 2024, 6:12 am

Chasidish people say kappel more than yarmulka. no?

amother

Crocus

Fri, Feb 09 2024, 7:09 am

Plenty of words I thought were Yiddish but were actually Russian.

amother

Crocus

Fri, Feb 09 2024, 7:10 am

amother Pewter wrote:

And on the flip side, there are hardly any yiddish words today. I grew up in a Russian family who speak real Yiddish, no garbage or street or couch or car substitutes LOL

Personally I think Yiddish is a forgotten language and it makes me a bit sad.

Same.
Are you my relative.😂

amother

Crocus

Fri, Feb 09 2024, 7:12 am

amother Orchid wrote:

There are many families that still speak the correct proper yiddish. They don't say couch, window, car, garbage, floor, porch.... they speak strictly yiddish.

Mainstream chassidish don’t. I worked in a chassidishe school and half the words I used they didn’t know what they meant because they used English words. And these are words in Yiddish not another language.

amother

Crocus

Fri, Feb 09 2024, 7:12 am

amother Pumpkin wrote:

Chasidish people say kappel more than yarmulka. no?

Yes.

amother

Lawngreen

Fri, Feb 09 2024, 7:43 am

Someone in the other Yiddish thread said she thought besmirch was yiddish

amother

Almond

Fri, Feb 09 2024, 8:31 am

A very American relative of mine who has some Chassidishe relatives told me that
Doona is Yiddish for a carseat.
She was shocked to find out that its a brand of a carseat.

But I guess it's similar to Kleenex, Pampers, Qtips.

siddur

Fri, Feb 09 2024, 9:14 am

Some of these are hysterical!

Growing up we used to refer to dustpan as “shovel “ .As in , can you get the broom and shovel.
I always thought “shovel” was the Yiddish word
for dustpan .