English
Yiddishist
Yiddishist comes from Yiddish ייִדישיסט ‘Yiddishist (person)’.
- Yiddishmodernייִדישיסטyidishist‘Yiddishist (person)’
- Englishearliest quotation 2024Yiddishist
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Yiddishmodernייִדישיסטyidishist‘Yiddishist (person)’
- Englishearliest quotation 2024Yiddishist
Earliest quotation: 2024, David Golinkin, The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony: “The third type of secular Bar Mitzvah was developed…”
Equivalent to Yiddish + -ist
Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה
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Old High German judeo
Old High German judeisc
Middle High German jüdesch
Yiddish ייִדיש ‘Yiddish, a spoken language of the Ashkenazi…’
English Yiddish
Every English word from Yiddish ייִדישיסט
Today it means
noun A proponent of the Yiddish language and culture.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Yiddish ייִדישיסט / Yiddishist