Landsleit Definition

läntslīt
landsleit
noun
Fellow Jews; sometimes, specif., those from the same town or village in Europe as oneself.
Webster's New World

Origin of Landsleit

  • Yiddish landslayt from Middle High German lantsliute natives, compatriots lant land landsman2 liute pl. of liut person, people (from Old High German leudh- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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