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Yiddish
Etymology
From Middle High German welisc (“Romance, non-Germanic, foreign”), from Old High German walask, walahisk, welisk, from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz. The script was referred to as “Romance” or “foreign” because it was traditionally used by the Ladino-speaking Sephardim, rather than by the Ashkenazim.
Adjective
וועליש • (velish)
- of or related to the Vellish script, the most common typeface for printed Hebrew and the Sephardi Stam script from which the typeface is derived
Declension