Some Yiddish roads lead to Rome… – The American Israelite Newspaper

Some Yiddish roads lead to Rome… – The American Israelite Newspaper

My eldest son is a budding and enthusiastic Latinist, a noble and edifying interest if I do say so, and his dedication is testament to the notion that “labor omnia vincit.” (Though I am more the embodiment of “errare humanum est.”) So I thought I’d poke around and see how the Roman world made its way into Yiddish. We need first to make an historical distinction. Given where and how Yiddish first developed, a small but important group of words en…