High German-derived language used by Ashkenazi Jews.
Synonyms
Examples for "yi"
Examples for "yi"
1
We are the old ones now, and we teach the young, ay, yi!
2
She will not talk even to me of him-Ay yi!
3
Ay, yi, to think she come once in six months all these years!
4
A smoky fire, a pot, a bed of skins, aih- yi!
5
Yi Kong went on calmly: All right, enough of stones and truth.
1
The sign-boards were in English and Yiddish, some of them in Russian.
2
Yiddish was spoken upstairs, but only German and English were allowed downstairs.
3
They chaffed the poet in polished Yiddish throughout the first two acts.
4
The butchers looked her over, chattered in Yiddish and asked the price.
5
We couldn't speak English, but he was from Brooklyn and spoke Yiddish.
Russian