English
kishke
Kishke comes from Yiddish קישקע ‘intestine, innards, bowels’.
- Yiddishmodernקישקעkishke‘intestine, innards, bowels’
- Englishearliest quotation 1969kishke
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Yiddishmodernקישקעkishke‘intestine, innards, bowels’
- Englishearliest quotation 1969kishke
Earliest quotation: 1969, Philip Roth: “Subsequently she was over the toilet all night throwing…”
The story
Attested in English since the late 1930s, from Yiddish קישקע (kishke), from Slavic—Polish kiszka, Russian кишка́ (kišká), or Ukrainian ки́шка (kýška). May be related to Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”) or Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”).
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewp- ‘tuft, cluster, hair on the head’
Today it means
noun A dish made from stuffed intestine.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Yiddish קישקע / kishke