Re: [Cz-L] More Yiddish and answer to Cornel, Hardy and Berti

Palat-Schinken must be of German origin even if the Rumanian eat placinte
that they took from the Hungarians -

although it might have been another dish and tasted differently how else can
the use of the compound German word be explained?

Berti

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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 4:02 PM
To: "Czernowitz Genealogy and History" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Subject: [Cz-L] More Yiddish and answer to Cornel, Hardy and Berti

> The German word for horseradish is MEERRETTICH.
> The word KREN, comes from the Slavic, not the word Chrein
> from the German Kren, just as PALATSCHINKEN comes from Hungarian,
> NOCKERL from the Italian gnocchi and SCHMETTEN from the Slavic SMETANA.
> The German word ZWIEBEL comes from the Latin CIPOLLATUM
> as does the Slavic TZIBULYE. The Yiddish TZIBALLE, at least to me,
> sounds more like the Slavic than the German.
>
> The Yiddish word PURETZ, does not mean robber or violent person,
> which the Hebrew PARITZ does, from the root PRTZ, therefore I doubt
> that the Yiddish PURETZ comes from the Hebrew. Possibly it is
> the other way around.
>
> Other Yiddish words of Slavic origin:
> BABE grandmother
> TATEH father
> KRETSHME pub
> VISHNE cherries
> KACZKE duck
> KWOTCZKE egg laying hen
> SMARK snot
> SMARKATE snotty
> SCZOR rat
> POLITZEH wooden floor.
> PAPIROSSEN cigarettes
> SZABE frog
> KALETUCH fermented milk
> KASHA buckwheat
>
> Does anyone know the origin of the words:
> CHNYOCK, SHMENDRICK, YACHNEH, YENTE, LOKSHEN, FARFEL?
>
> Then there are the sayings made up of words of mixed origin, like:
>
> NYE RUBEH MINYI TOIVES don't do me any favors
> NAKTE HOLITZEH TANZT AUF DER POLITZEH naked Hutzul dances
> on the wooden floor
> HAK NISHT IN CZAINIK don't talk so much
>
> A GITTEN SHABES,
>
> Mimi
>
> [Dear Friends: Please tie this conversation into Bukowina history and
> genealogy lest it become only a discussion about the roots of Yiddish
> words. Thank you, Moderator Bruce]

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