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amother
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Post 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?
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Mindfully




 
 
    
 

Post 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!
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dankbar  




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Feb 08 2024, 9:57 pm
Conniptions like your stomach is in knipen knots
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amother
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Post Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:06 pm
dankbar wrote:
Conniptions like your stomach is in knipen knots


Is it yiddish or english?
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  dankbar




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:15 pm
English
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WhatFor




 
 
    
 

Post 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.
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amother
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Post Thu, Feb 08 2024, 10:35 pm
Yarmulka comes from Aramaic
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amother
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Post 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...
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LovesHashem




 
 
    
 

Post 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
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My 2 cents




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Feb 08 2024, 11:38 pm
Yarmulke comes from the 2 words yerei Malka. ( literally fear of the king.)
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Reality




 
 
    
 

Post 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.
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amother
Strawberry


 

Post Fri, Feb 09 2024, 2:19 am
lol I used to think the word naive was Yiddish 😊
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amother
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Post Fri, Feb 09 2024, 6:12 am
Chasidish people say kappel more than yarmulka. no?
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amother
Crocus  


 

Post Fri, Feb 09 2024, 7:09 am
Plenty of words I thought were Yiddish but were actually Russian.
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amother
  Crocus  


 

Post 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.😂
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amother
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Post 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.
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amother
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Post Fri, Feb 09 2024, 7:12 am
amother Pumpkin wrote:
Chasidish people say kappel more than yarmulka. no?



Yes.
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amother
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Post Fri, Feb 09 2024, 7:43 am
Someone in the other Yiddish thread said she thought besmirch was yiddish
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amother
Almond


 

Post 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.
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siddur




 
 
    
 

Post 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 .
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