Yiddish

Yiddish ייִדיש‎ (yidish), from Yidish Daytsh, from Middle High German jüdisch diutsch (“Jewish German”), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish”).

• enPR: yĭd'ĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/

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Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish)

1. Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
2. (informal) Jewish.

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Yiddish

1. A West Germanic language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.

• Jewish

• Wiktionary's coverage of Yiddish terms
• ייִד‎ (yid) (Yid) m

• ISO 639-1 code yi, ISO 639-3 code yid. The dialects are: