This Yiddish-English dictionary includes over 4,000 Romanized word-to-word entries; an appendix of idiomatic expressions & proverbs; and an appendix of common words used in the English language.
Author: David C. Gross
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN: 0781804396
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 146
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This Yiddish-English dictionary includes over 4,000 Romanized word-to-word entries; an appendix of idiomatic expressions & proverbs; and an appendix of common words used in the English language.This entertaining phonetic dictionary of the Yiddish language contains both English to Yiddish and Yiddish to English dictionaries.
Author: Harry Coldoff
Publisher: [Willowdale, Ont.] : Proclaim Publications
ISBN: UCSC:32106008466184
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 223
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This entertaining phonetic dictionary of the Yiddish language contains both English to Yiddish and Yiddish to English dictionaries. In addition, there are special sections on Yiddish translations, idioms, Yiddish words for plants, animals, weather, family relations, time, numbers, proper names, antecdotes, curses, death, cemetaries, God, and the zodiac.Augmented by an extensive user's guide, this volume is an indispensable resource for students, teachers, translators, and readers of Yiddish.
Author: שלום ביינפעלד
Publisher:
ISBN: 0253009839
Category: Reference
Page: 704
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"Based on the Dictionnaire Yiddish-Francais by Yitshkhok Niborski and Bernard Vaisbrot with the assistance of Simon Neuberg, c2002 Bibliotheque Medem, Paris, licensed from Maison de la Culture Yiddish-bibliotheque Medem, Paris, France." --Title page.This is the only book to seriously treat the intriguing linguistic and cultural phenomenon of the intimate contact between Yiddish and English over the past 120 years.
Author: Sol Steinmetz
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: UVA:X004525933
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 172
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"With a collection of quotations from literature and the press, Steinmetz documents the unusually high lexical, semantic, and intonational exchanges between Yiddish and English in America. He offers more than 1,200 Yiddish words, expressions, idioms, and phrases that have melted into the English vernacular.".Containing over 8,500 Yiddish words and phrases in transliteration, The Yiddish Dictionary Sourcebook is the handiest guide available for those who wish to learn colloquial Yiddish.
Author: Herman Galvin
Publisher: Ktav Pub Incorporated
ISBN: UOM:49015002913698
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 317
View: 812
Containing over 8,500 Yiddish words and phrases in transliteration, The Yiddish Dictionary Sourcebook is the handiest guide available for those who wish to learn colloquial Yiddish. It features a comprehensive Yiddish-English/English-Yiddish dictionary which pays special attention to those words most useful for everyday conversation. Every word is given in both its standard Yiddish form and in English transliteration. The Introduction provides a brief history of the Yiddish language and of Yiddish culture in the United States in the last century, a guide to Yiddish pronunciation and grammar, and a series of topically arranged appendices containing Yiddish proverbs and popular expressions.