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Re: Re[2]: Yiddish on the list
- From: Solidarity Foundation <svzandt...>
- Subject: Re: Re[2]: Yiddish on the list
- Date: Fri 06 Mar 1998 16.21 (GMT)
This is great! I'm loining already! Ken zain. Wus iz "farkoyfer"? -- jeff
Farkoyfer is this Americaner Yid's attempt at saying 'seller' or
'salesman'
>from the German "Verkaufer." (pronounced 'fair-cow-fir.')
Alex Jacobowitz
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Correction:
not "from" the German "Verkaufer" --
cognate with the German "Verkaufer" --
-- Itzik Leyb