Yiddish
properNoun
/ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/
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- A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, 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 mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.
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Jiddisch,
Jidisch,
Judendeutsch,
Judenteutsch,
Jüdisch-Deutsch,
Jüdischdeutsch
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Yiddish
adjective
/ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/
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- Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
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jiddisch,
judendeutsch,
judenteutsch,
jüdisch-deutsch,
jüdisch-teutsch,
jüdischdeutsch
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Yiddishism
noun
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- A word or phrase that is characteristically Yiddish but used in another language.
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Jiddismus
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