Yiddish

noun

1. a High German language with an admixture of vocabulary from Hebrew and the Slavic languages, written in Hebrew letters, and spoken mainly by Jews in eastern and central Europe and by Jewish emigrants from these regions and their descendants.

adjective

2. of, relating to, or characteristic of Yiddish.

noun

1. a language spoken as a vernacular by Jews in Europe and elsewhere by Jewish emigrants, usually written in the Hebrew alphabet. Historically, it is a dialect of High German with an admixture of words of Hebrew, Romance, and Slavonic origin, developed in central and E Europe during the Middle Ages

adjective

2. in or relating to this language

1875, from Yiddish yidish, from Middle High German jüdisch “Jewish” (in phrase jüdisch deutsch “Jewish-German”), from jude “Jew,” from Old High German judo, from Latin Judaeus (see Jew). The English word has been re-borrowed in German as jiddisch.