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RE: Re[2]: Yiddish on the list
- From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>
- Subject: RE: Re[2]: Yiddish on the list
- Date: Thu 26 Mar 1998 12.49 (GMT)
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