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Re: Re[2]: Yiddish on the list



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


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