Words that you thought were Yiddish

amother

Magnolia ↓

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 12:05 pm

Bleemee wrote:

Seltzer

Is selzer not Yiddish?

Bnei Berak 10

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 12:09 pm

amother Orchid wrote:

It is a yiddish word. Ladel means drawer.
לעדל

Ladle is also a fully proper English word but in English it's a dipper or spoon.

amother

↑ Pewter

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 12:13 pm

amother Magnolia wrote:

Is selzer not Yiddish?

It's a German/Yiddish word.

amother

↑ Outerspace

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 12:16 pm

gamanit wrote:

By the same token you can say there's no English. Languages grow and change over time. That's how it works.

Even more so with Yiddish than other languages because by definition it’s a borrowed language.

Highstrung ↓

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 12:22 pm

giftedmom wrote:

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

I actually thought schnitzel was a Hebrew word. We grew up saying breaded cutlets . The Yiddish speaking people called it פלייש איבערגעצויגן . I always saw schnitzel on Israeli menus so thought it was Hebrew

amother

Pink ↓

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 12:25 pm

amother Orchid wrote:

Shmatta is as Polish as popetch is Hungarian.

Slippers in Hungarian are papucs

https://www.google.com/search?.....UTF-8

↑ bigsis144

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 12:33 pm

amother Orchid wrote:

It is a yiddish word. Ladel means drawer.
לעדל

Ladle is an English word:

amother

↑ Orchid ↓

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 12:33 pm

bigsis144 wrote:

Ladle is an English word:

But it's also a yiddish word.

amother

↑ Pink

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 12:40 pm

amother Orchid wrote:

But it's also a yiddish word.

There are quite a few words that sound the same in Yiddish and English but have different meaning.

גראב-grub
Guy-''ג
d!ck-דיק
Heist-הייסט
Hint-הינט

Etc etc

amother

Anemone

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 12:44 pm

I grew up in strictly Yiddish speaking house (besides the typical English words used by everyone, like fridge, garbage etc) and we used the word hectic. I thought it was Yiddish word for a very long time.

amother

Crimson ↓

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 1:00 pm

amother Anemone wrote:

I grew up in strictly Yiddish speaking house (besdies the typical English words used by everyone, like fridge, garbage etc) and we used the word hectic. I thought it was Yiddish word for a very long time.

Then there's words like
Busy, but, available, no, and a million other words that I laugh when my kids ask me for the english word for it

↑ YounginBP

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 1:14 pm

amother Pink wrote:

Slippers in Hungarian are papucs

https://www.google.com/search?.....UTF-8

You can all stop fighting .. LOL

Slippers is שטעק שיך

amother

Green ↓

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:01 pm

peace2 wrote:

On the flip side, I grew up with zero yiddish words used at home so there were words that I never knew were yiddish like shissel - for some reason my mother used that one yiddish word but I always thought it was English. Oh and I guess she said pulke for drumstick but literally nothing else

Pulka is Hungarian.
It's the bottom part (drum stick and the other part attached to it) of a chicken.

↑ giftedmom

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:03 pm

YounginBP wrote:

You can all stop fighting .. LOL

Slippers is שטעק שיך

And mother is mutter

farm

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:07 pm

This thread is so cute, enjoying immensely 😆

amother

Lawngreen ↓

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:15 pm

My friend thought decrepit was Yiddish.

amother

Slategray

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:18 pm

I thought connive was Yiddish. When we learned parshas Shmos in high school, my chumash teacher dramatized about "conniving Paroh" and "Paroh, such a conniver". Lol

My friend, as a child, thought Pamela was a Yiddish name.

amother

Ghostwhite

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:19 pm

Is nosh Yiddish? I always thought almuni was Yiddish.

Tao

Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:27 pm

Also, karg (stingy) is a yiddish word. Who knew?