Re: [Cz-L] Geschaeft

From: Hedwig Brenner <hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:20:19 +0200
To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Reply-to: Hedwig Brenner <hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>

Hi Hardy, congratulation for the perfection both in English, Yiddisch, and
also in rumanian and german. a multitalent, which put the point on the i.
Hedwig
----- Original Message -----
From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 6:42 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] Geschaeft

> In Czernowitz if you had a store you had a Geschaeft.
> This is business , a store in German.
> In Czernowitherisch : A Gescheft.
> " A Gescheft hob ich mit Ihm" says I have business with him
> but means exactly the opposite. Always cynical.
> " Nischt dein Gescheft " means none of your business.
> In Yiddish Gescheft meant a big store - a small store ,a grocery
> was a Gewelb.
> This is from the german Gewoelbe a vault.
> From medieval times when shops had vaulted ceilings.
> " Ich gey in Gewelb koifen zehn deka El-Ka Pitter".
> El - Ka was a brand and a deka was 100 grams Pitter was
> butter..
> Once upon a time.
>
> Hardy
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