Gothic Yiddish

Yiddish is well represented by written texts starting at about 1400. There are some earlier traces of written Yiddish that go back about 100...

I last posted on this blog in October, 2009. Since then a number of irresistable new opportunities have appeared which have competed for my ...

Proto-Germanic is commonly reconstructed as lacking a short 'o' phoneme. The subsequent development of short 'o' can be look...

The Yiddish word 'gayes' was used in western Germany and Poland to mean 'people of the countryside, particularly non-Jewish'...

In Yiddish 'oy'ganes' means large protruding eyes as if in surprise. A form 'oy'genes' with stress on the first syll...

Yiddish 'klezmer' 'musician' is commonly derived from Hebrew 'kley-zemer'. Biblical Gothic has a word 'klismo...