Re: [Cz-L] Tachke and more Yiddish

I know exactly meaning of Paskudnyak but my English
is insufficient to elaborate.
    
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Tachke and more Yiddish

> To add to Hardy's vocabulary of Ukrainian words in Yiddish:
>
> Temneh is dark
> Bloteh is mud
> Szabeh is frog
> kaliker is a person with a physical disability
> barbulie is a potato
> Zibulyeh is an onion
> szmenieh is a handful
> Chainik is a tea kettle
>
> and one correction:
> Paskudniak is not a low character, but more exactly the word means
> an unsavory person.
>
> It would also be interesting to know what Hebrew or Yiddish words
> were taken up by Ukrainian.
>
> Mimi

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