Yiddish

Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Yiddish ייִדיש־דוײַטש (yidish-daytsh), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish”).

• enPR: yĭd'ĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/

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Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish)

1. Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
2. (informal) Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.

   Synonym: Jewish

   Yiddish cooking; Yiddish music

Yiddish

1. A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.

   Synonym: Jewish

   Holonym: High German

   Meronyms: Eastern Yiddish, East Yiddish, Western Yiddish, West Yiddish

   • 1983, Philip Baldi, An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages, page 128:

     Yiddish is a High German language [...] two varieties of Yiddish developed [...]

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yiddish terms

• ISO 639-1 code yi, ISO 639-3 code yid (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Yiddish, yid ⁠, a macrolanguage including:
  • Ethnologue entry for Eastern Yiddish, ydd ⁠
  • Ethnologue entry for Western Yiddish, yih ⁠