RE: Terkishe vs Terkisher

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

Dear Bob,
I just want to make sure I'm understanding all of this right:
So, when we are using the  adjective  terkish to describe the musical genre,
we use terkisher because "klezmer" is masculine and/or because "tants" is
masculine?
I have a cd that has a tune called terkisher freylekhs--I've  have been
informed that "freylekhs is neuter."  Do you still use the "er" ending in
this case?

Helen


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert A. Rothstein" <rar (at) slavic(dot)umass(dot)edu>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: Terkishe vs Terkisher


> Sandra Layman, citing Weinreich,  is right about "boyberiker" but wrong
> about "terkisher."  The adjective "terkish" is an ordinary adjective
> (like "rusish," "frantsoyzish" etc.) and takes the usual endings
> (masculine -er, plural -e, etc.), as Asya Vaisman pointed out. In the
> adjective "boyberiker," as in other adjectives derived from place names
> (varshaver, adeser etc.), the -er is part of the stem, not an ending,
> and the adjective is undeclined, i.e., it doesn't agree with the noun it
> modifies since it takes no endings. So, e.g.,
>         a boyberiker/varshaver/adeser klezmer
> boyberiker/varshaver/adeser klezmorim
>         a terkisher/rusisher/frantsoyzisher klezmer
> terkishe/rusishe/frantsoyzishe klezmorim.
>
>                     Bob Rothstein
>
>
>

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