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Yiddish is Delish


By Mendel Kaplan


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Mendel Kaplan
Rabbi Mendel Kaplan is the founder and spiritual leader of Chabad @ Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, he also serves as a Chaplain of the York Regional Police Service



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Posted: Dec 2, 2009
Loved it!
I love Yiddish, it's the sweetest language, so expresive!

Just in case anyone was curious, geshmack is a German, schmecken means to taste, geschmacken means tasted. So it's a really good example of a term that comes from German that doesn't have a particular meaning in German, but a totally different meaning in Yiddish.

Kvetsh came from Old High German, "quetschen" meant to squeeze. Ausquetschen is german for squeeze out, but it never means to complain, just squeeze.

The etymology of shmuts is from old high german, meaning dirt, but it's in German too. Actually German uses Dreck too :P

Anyone know about feygele? What about lehavdl?
Posted By 'צוי יוסי אלדריצ, Austin, TX

Posted: May 14, 2008
Answer for Rabbi Mendel
I would say Ivrit, but I am not sure about the roots of the yiddish words mentioned above. These, may german words imported into yiddish but i have no way of knowing about the roots of these words if they are hebrew words imported into german.
Posted By Anonymous

Posted: May 13, 2008
Question for Rabbi Mendel
When you talk about Hebrew in your talk, are you refering to Lashon Kodesh or Ivrit?
Posted By Anonymous

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Yiddish is Delish
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