Translation
Yiddish-speaking Jew, Ashkenazi Jew
Word origin
From Yiddish yid, a Jew, which goes back through Middle High German jüde to Hebrew yehudi, a Judaean. The language name follows the people, not the other way round.
- Origin
- Yiddish
- Root
- yid
- English cognates
- Yiddish
Examples
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His grandfather was a Yiddish-speaking Jew from a small Polish town.
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The Jews of that quarter spoke four languages.
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Many Yiddish-speaking Jews left the country after the war.
Esperanto treats peoples the way it treats every nationality: the person is the root and the language is an adjective built from it. So a is a person, a Yiddish-speaking Jew of central and eastern Europe, and the language is jida.
That is the correction worth making, because the obvious guess is wrong. does not mean Yiddish. If you want the language, write jida or jida .
It is also narrower than (rank 1152). Every is a , but a Sephardic or an Israeli Jew is a and not a ; the word carries a specific culture and a specific language with it. The religion is .
Zamenhof grew up with Yiddish in Białystok, and in his twenties he wrote a grammar of it, arguing for a standardised written Yiddish in the Latin alphabet. It stayed unpublished in his lifetime. Historio de Esperanto has the rest of that biography.
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