Yiddish Definition
yĭdĭsh
noun
A language derived from Middle High German, spoken by E European Jews and their descendants in other countries: it is written in the Hebrew alphabet and contains vocabulary borrowings from Hebrew, Russian, Polish, English, etc.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of or in this language.
Webster's New World
(informal) Jewish.
Wiktionary
Origin of Yiddish
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Yiddish yidish Jewish, Yiddish from Middle High German jüdisch Jewish from jude, jüde Jew from Old High German judo from Latin Iūdaeus Jew
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Yiddish ייִדיש, from Yidish Daytsh, from Middle High German jüdisch diutsch (“Jewish German"), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish").
From Wiktionary
Since Jewish Germans (Yiddish) had to exist before a Yiddish language could be created, the term is probably Middle High German, rather than Yiddish.
From Wiktionary
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