RE: [Cz-L] Zbitke -a Czernowitz expression. from Mordecai Lapidot on 2012-05-03 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: Mordecai Lapidot <lapidotm_at_zahav.net.il>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 11:38:34 +0300
To: 'HARDY BREIER' <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>, 'CZERNOWITZ-L' <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Reply-to: Mordecai Lapidot <lapidotm_at_zahav.net.il>

I too am familiar with the term. As far as I remember it is not always
connected with "vengeance" - just the act of doing something unpleasant to
somebody, or hurting him/her to spite. The origin is very likely from the
Russian word sbit or sbivat (maybe the s turns into z in the Ukrainian
regions, or was just misspelled in Czernowitz Yiddish) meaning: to bring
down, shake down, knock down.

Mordecai

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Subject: [Cz-L] Zbitke -a Czernowitz expression.

"Zbitke " a word in Czernowitzer Yiddish.
   I don't know its roots but I know the meaning:
  If you wanted to retaliate for some mistreatment
  you did him a "zbitke".
    Zbitke should have no advantages to you
     except satisfaction.
   It must only hurt your victim .
     Pure vengeance.

From the Ukrainean by sound.

Hardy
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