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English Dictionary: Yiddish by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Yiddish
n
  1. a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Yiddish \Yid"dish\, n. [G. j[81]disch, prop., Jewish, fr. Jude
      Jew. See {Jew}, {Jewish}.]
      A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle
      German dialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence.
      It is written in Hebrew characters.
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