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
Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
A West Germanic language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.
The word comes from Middle High German jüdisch, meaning "Jewish," and was originally used as a shortened form of jüdischdiutsch ("Jewish-German"). It is now the name for the language itself, often analyzed by its surface components as Yid plus the suffix -ish.