@Jenny1954 This makes sense, because Yiddish is based on South-German. And if you add the letters "-el" to a word in south-german (but not in north-german), it simply means "small". Bikh = Book, Bikhel = (little) Book.
Yiddish was based on medieval middle and high German and written in Hebrew. If you can speak German, you can understand a lot of Yiddish once you account for some vowel differences.
this reminds me of being a cosmetologist and being hired for bat mitzvahs and mainly because I spoke German from native family in Bavaria and they were most anti Nazi of Germans and because I understood Yiddish, I would do the same up do on 30 girls and it was hell when any of them would mess it up but they paid extra for my patience and some of the old folks because I was a kind Bavarian.
@Jenny1954 This makes sense, because Yiddish is based on South-German. And if you add the letters "-el" to a word in south-german (but not in north-german), it simply means "small". Bikh = Book, Bikhel = (little) Book.
Same like in English "book" and "booklet".
Elberiver11 7 months ago
-beautiful (english), sheyn (yiddish), schön (german)
-moon (english), levone (yiddish), mond (german)
-black coffee (english), shvarts kave (yiddish), schwarzer kaffee (german)
-blue (english), bloy (yiddish), blau (german)
-book (english), bikh (yiddish), buch (german)
most of the german and yiddish words are pronounced the same...
skiegiek 1 year ago
Yiddish was based on medieval middle and high German and written in Hebrew. If you can speak German, you can understand a lot of Yiddish once you account for some vowel differences.
doctim11 1 year ago
My parents, olev a sholem, used to call a book a "bichel". They were Litvacks.
Jenny1954 1 year ago
this reminds me of being a cosmetologist and being hired for bat mitzvahs and mainly because I spoke German from native family in Bavaria and they were most anti Nazi of Germans and because I understood Yiddish, I would do the same up do on 30 girls and it was hell when any of them would mess it up but they paid extra for my patience and some of the old folks because I was a kind Bavarian.
HerrSpieldose 1 year ago
She's so sweet. Excellent Class, Thank You!
LingerieGoddess 1 year ago
heheh :]
moon in yiddish is like in hebrew- levana
and the rest are like german
kootzyyy 2 years ago
YOU ARE AMAZING
TheZeddyandLevyShow 2 years ago
Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
777Finster 2 years ago
i love learning yiddish! oy, i wish i wasnt a shiksa.
sparkleforamoment 2 years ago