Hi
A similar story happened to me; In Czernowitz we said
"Hort" for Wholesale and "lechudim" for retail. Since Lechudim sounds
slavic I thought that it has a slavic source. When I arrived in
Palestine in 1940 I saw on the store signs "Besitonut Weleyichidim"
and I grasped that Leyichidim" to sigle buyers was the source of the
Czernowitzer Lechudim.
Paul Pessach Heger
2010/10/20 HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
>
> Among curses in Czernowitz you would hear :
> "Soll er genisigt weren "
> We didn understand the meaning but the intention was fatal :
> He should die, be obliterated in eternity.
> Then ,by the Hebrew we found out.
> " Nezek "in Hebrew is damage and thus" genisigt "is damaged.
> "He should be damaged " was our curse. This is all.
> Low key curse.
> Hardy
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