Etymograph

English

Yiddo

From Yid + -o.

Formed from Yid + -o

Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος ‘Jew or Judean’

Latin iūdaeus ‘Jewish, of or pertaining to the Jewish people’

Old High German judeo

Middle High German jüde ‘a Jew’

Yiddish ייִד ‘Jew’

English Yid

The story

In sense 2, the derogatory term for Jews being applied due to the large historical Jewish support for the team.

Today it means

noun A Jew.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Yiddo