[Cz-L] Yiddishe reasoning.

Sei mir noch nisht gezint, ich ghey noch nisht avek.
   " Dont be well yet , I am not leaving yet" .
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Sieben Zwetschken.

I never heard "sieben Zwetschken", but I always wondered where "sieben
Sachen" came from.
Hardy, you claim that it originated with the Turkish siege of Vienna.
Did the Yiddish saying " a geleymter terk" (a paralyzed Turk,) used to
denote someone particularly clumsy, also originate at that time?
Or did it by, any chance, originate in the Czernowitz Armenian community?

Apropo "let him go", this in Yiddish became "gey weiter". It was usually
used in a dismissive meaning, such as when someone complained about the
bad smell of cooking cabbage, he would be told: "Shmek oop dein Cheylik ind
gey weiter." (smell your share and go off).

Funnily, at least in my family, when someone made a nuisance of himself, he
would be told: "Zei gezind and gey weiter." (be healthy and go off).
Imagine my surprise, when I heard Non-Czernowitzers use "gey gezind" as
polite parting words

Mimi.

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