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Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging [1] term for a gentile [a] woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into English usage and some Hebrew usage (as well as Polish and German), mostly in North American Jewish culture.
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
From Yiddish איציק (itsik), a variant or pet form of the name Isaak (alternatively Isaac). [59] Jewboy United States: Young Jewish boys For a young Jewish male, originally young Jewish boys who sold counterfeit coins in 18th century London. [60] [61] Jidan Romania: Jews From jid, Romanian equivalent of yid. [62] Kike: United States: Jews
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An ethnonym is the name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (where the name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms or endonyms (self-designation; where the name is created and used by the ethnic group itself).
If there was an agreement about the meaning of a particular word but it was used with a different meaning in literature, he wrote down both meanings side by side. In addition to defining each word, Ben-Yehuda included translation to three languages: English, German, and French. This was mainly done by Ben-Yehuda's assistant, Moshe Bar-Nissim.
The use of yenta as a word for 'busybody' originated in the age of Yiddish theatre. During and after World War I, Yiddish-language discs recorded in New York by theatre actors such as Clara Gold and Gus Goldstein portrayed the characters Mendel and Yente Telebende and sold so well that dozens of copycat recordings were made.
While it may seem like a trivial technical distinction to the fleeting layman observer, there is a major difference between Yiddish words used in English and English words of Yiddish origin: The former are, for the most part, not recognised as English words, and their use with English to some extent involves code-switching and is often ...