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Meanings of judeo-german in English

Russian
идиш
Portuguese
língua iídiche
Catalan
jídix
Spanish
yiddish
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High German-derived language used by Ashkenazi Jews.

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      Examples for "yi"
      Examples for "yi"
      1
      We are the old ones now, and we teach the young, ay, yi!
      The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
      2
      She will not talk even to me of him-Ay yi!
      Rezanov
      3
      Ay, yi, to think she come once in six months all these years!
      The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
      4
      A smoky fire, a pot, a bed of skins, aih- yi!
      Northern Lights, Volume 2.
      5
      Yi Kong went on calmly: All right, enough of stones and truth.
      Petals from the sky
      1
      The sign-boards were in English and Yiddish, some of them in Russian.
      The Rise of David Levinsky
      2
      Yiddish was spoken upstairs, but only German and English were allowed downstairs.
      The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
      3
      They chaffed the poet in polished Yiddish throughout the first two acts.
      Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
      4
      The butchers looked her over, chattered in Yiddish and asked the price.
      Selected Polish Tales
      5
      We couldn't speak English, but he was from Brooklyn and spoke Yiddish.
      The Guardian