Re: [Cz-L] re Hardy farsehen from Paul Heger

The things we find out about Czernowitz!
Women had children who did not look like their father!
And just because the mother looked at someone else too intensely!
A married woman's lover was delicately called a "Hausfreund",
"Mistumeh", he was not just a friend of the house.

I was glad Paul mentioned the word "mistume", I had not heard it in ages.
It is a Yiddish expression meaning "it seems" from the Hebrew "Min ha-stam".

Mimi

On 9/10/09 11:01 AM, "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca> wrote:

> This below from Paul Heger, which I believe was meant for the list:
> jerome
> ------- Forwarded message -------
> From: "Paul Heger" <pheger_at_gmail.com>
> To: romers_at_shaw.ca
> Cc:
> Subject: re Hardy farsehen
> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:45:59 -0700
>
> A similar expression to ³sich farseien² was auch ³sich verkiken,² and
> would
> be said with some double meaning, possibly with a sexual undertone. If
> somebody said on a child he is looking like X it was sometimes said:
> ²Mistume hot sein Mitter sich verkikt in him
> Paul Heger
>
>

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