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Yid⋅dish

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–noun
1. a High German language with an admixture of vocabulary from Hebrew and the Slavic languages, written in Hebrew letters, and spoken mainly by Jews in eastern and central Europe and by Jewish emigrants from these regions and their descendants.
–adjective
2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Yiddish.
Origin:
1885–90; < Yiddish yidish; see yid, -ish 1
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Yid·dish   (yĭd'ĭsh)   
n.  The language historically of Ashkenazic Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, resulting from a fusion of elements derived principally from medieval German dialects and secondarily from Hebrew and Aramaic, various Slavic languages, and Old French and Old Italian.

[Yiddish yidish, Jewish, Yiddish, from Middle High German jüdisch, Jewish, from jude, jüde, Jew, from Old High German judo, from Latin Iūdaeus; see Jew.]
Yid'dish adj.
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Word Origin & History

Yiddish 
1875, from Yiddish yidish, from M.H.G. jüdisch "Jewish" (in phrase jüdisch deutsch "Jewish-German"), from jude "Jew," from O.H.G. judo, from L. Judaeus (see Jew). The Eng. word has been re-borrowed in Ger. as jiddisch.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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