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Yid⋅dish

  [yid-ish]
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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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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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