Re: [Cz-L] The joys of Yiddish

My late mother, Pearl Spiegel Fichman, compared the Yiddish her family
spoke (they were Stadlers and Spiegels from, I think, the Zablotov
area) to my father's Yiddish (Fichmans from Lipcani and Kanners from .
. .). My mother described the difference by saying that my father's
Yiddish was more Russian than hers.

Eytan
Eytan Fichman

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From: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: CZERNOWITZ-L <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>; mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu
Sent: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:51 am
Subject: Re: The joys of Yiddish

Yiddish comes from medieval German of a certain area on the Rhein. 
But living among the Slav people in the East of Europe for so long hadÂ=
 
its impact. Our Yiddish was full of Ukrainean words ( almost no
Rumanian). 
Take the words that begin with Zh. No German word starts wit a Zh. 
Zhabe from the Ukrainean Zhaba = Frog. 
In German it is Frosch. A Jew who spoke only Yiddish wouldnt know what
Frosch meant. 
Zhaver from Uk. izhavra = rust , in German - Rost . A jew wouldnt know
what it meant. 
  We would say Farzhavert as in german Verrostet , a germanification o=
f
the Uk. word. 
  Take zhaleven from Uk. with many meanings. To begrudge, to spare.Â=
 
  Do you know more ? 
Hardy 
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