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amother
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 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.
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amother
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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
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miami85
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:02 pm
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For me the word is "pogrom" I never remember if it is an English word or not.
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giftedmom
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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
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amother
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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.
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amother
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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.
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giftedmom
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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.
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amother
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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?
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amother
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:04 pm
Pogrom is actually a Russian word.
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amother
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:05 pm
| amother Firethorn wrote: | | 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? |
I wouldn't call it proper english, but it made it in to the English language, like many other words.
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giftedmom
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:05 pm
Well that makes a lot of sense as they actually invented them
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amother
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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
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giftedmom
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:06 pm
| amother Firethorn wrote: | | 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? |
Fun fact I didn’t know the word schnitzel as a kid. It was איבערגעצויגן פלייש.
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amother
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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.
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amother
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:32 pm
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We called burgers - schnitzel.
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amother
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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!
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amother
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 2:50 pm
| amother Fuchsia wrote: | 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. |
Here in Israel the Yiddish speakers say Auto (in Israeli accent) for car
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amother
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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.
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