Definitions for yiddishˈyɪd ɪʃ
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Yid•dishˈyɪd ɪʃ(n.)
(n.)a language of central and E European Jews and their descendants elsewhere: based on Rhenish dialects of Middle High German with an admixture of vocabulary from Hebrew and Aramaic, the Slavic languages, and other sources, and written in the Hebrew alphabet.
Category: Peoples
(adj.)of or pertaining to Yiddish.
Category: Peoples
Origin of Yiddish:
1885–90
Princeton's WordNet
Yiddish(noun)
a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
Wiktionary
Yiddish(Noun)
A West Germanic language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.
Yiddish(Adjective)
Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
Yiddish(Adjective)
Jewish.
Origin: The etymology of this word is mostly obscure. ייִדיש, from Yidish Daytsh, from jüdisch diutsch, cognate with German jüdisch. (also called Judeo-German, Judendeutsch; see Ashkenazi)
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Yiddish
a kind of mongrel language spoken by foreign Jews in England.
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