Words that you thought were Yiddish

amother

Firethorn

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:00 pm

giftedmom wrote:

It’s polish and paputch is Hungarian. They’re the same Yiddish.

Popetch is Hungarian but shmatta is a yiddish word. Yiddish can have polish origins just like it can have German/flemish.

amother

Zinnia

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:02 pm

I remember two words that I used to think were yiddish

Familiar which does have a yiddish sounding similar word

And I'm still not sure about Protexia

miami85

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:02 pm

For me the word is "pogrom" I never remember if it is an English word or not.

giftedmom

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:03 pm

amother Firethorn wrote:

Popetch is Hungarian but shmatta is a yiddish word. Yiddish can have polish origins just like it can have German/flemish.

Explain to me what makes shmatta more Yiddish than paputch or gabitch

amother

Orchid

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:03 pm

amother Firethorn wrote:

Popetch is Hungarian but shmatta is a yiddish word. Yiddish can have polish origins just like it can have German/flemish.

Shmatta is as Polish as popetch is Hungarian.

amother

Orchid

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:03 pm

giftedmom wrote:

Explain to me what makes shmatta more Yiddish than paputch or gabitch

It's not. It's the same thing.

giftedmom

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:03 pm

miami85 wrote:

For me the word is "pogrom" I never remember if it is an English word or not.

It’s both. Many words are.

amother

Firethorn

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:04 pm

amother Orchid wrote:

Schnitzel is German.
German & yiddish are very similar.

True but it's still proper English. When I was a kid I was embarrassed to sound "chassidish", so I would call it breaded chicken breast. And then my very American freind was like do you mean schnitzel?

amother

Orchid

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:04 pm

giftedmom wrote:

It’s both. Many words are.

Pogrom is actually a Russian word.

amother

Orchid

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:05 pm

amother Firethorn wrote:

I wouldn't call it proper english, but it made it in to the English language, like many other words.

giftedmom

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:05 pm

amother Orchid wrote:

Pogrom is actually a Russian word.

Well that makes a lot of sense as they actually invented them

amother

Orchid

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:06 pm

amother Zinnia wrote:

I remember two words that I used to think were yiddish

Familiar which does have a yiddish sounding similar word

And I'm still not sure about Protexia

Familia & protektzia are yiddish words.
Familia is also Latin/Spanish

giftedmom

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:06 pm

amother Firethorn wrote:

Fun fact I didn’t know the word schnitzel as a kid. It was איבערגעצויגן פלייש.

amother

Firethorn

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:06 pm

amother Orchid wrote:

It's not. It's the same thing.

OK idk, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't thing the word poputch is in the Yiddish/English dictionary Dont know

amother

Orchid

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:08 pm

giftedmom wrote:

Fun fact I didn’t know the word schnitzel as a kid. It was איבערגעצויגן פלייש.

I find that more non yiddish speaking families use the word schnitzel, then the other way around.

amother

Mayflower

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:38 pm

peace2 wrote:

Lol I totally get you!
I always thought dais was a yiddish or Hebrew word... like the Rabbis sitting on the dais at the dinner
Tumult like chavrusa tumult

I told DH that dais is an English word and he was so surprised!

amother

Fuchsia

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:41 pm

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.

Lol what's "real Yiddish" for car?
Machine (which was the term for a hundred other machines as well)? Automobile with an accent?
Your family, like mine, probably filled in the gaps with a lot of Russian words which felt more authentic just because it wasn't English.

amother

Jade

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:50 pm

amother Fuchsia wrote:

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

amother

Fuchsia

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:54 pm

amother Jade wrote:

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

Right and in the US, most Yiddish speakers say car. One is not more or less Yiddish than the other. Just like telephone isn't more yiddish than phone.
I do agree that there is a lot of rich Yiddish that many of us don't know/use anymore. I was just nitpicking on the specific example honestly.