RE: Re[2]: Yiddish on the list

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

Let me just add to what Itsik-Leyb said.   Modern German, Dutch, 
Yiddish, etc. are all equally distant outgrowths from that same 
Middle High German cognate.  


Reyzl



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From:  Solidarity Foundation[SMTP:svzandt (at) igc(dot)apc(dot)org]
Sent:  Friday, March 06, 1998 11:18 AM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant.
Subject:  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