Judeo-Italian Languages - Yiddish

Yiddish

According to some scholars, there are some Judaeo-Italian loan words that have found their way into Yiddish. For example, the word in Judaeo-Italian for "synagogue" is scola, as opposed to "school," which is scuola. The use of words for "school" to mean "synagogue" dates back to the Roman Empire. The Judaeo-Italian distinction between scola and scuola parallels the Standard Yiddish distinction between shul/shil 'synagogue' and shule 'school'. Another example is Yente, from the Judaeo-Italian yentile, as differentiated from the standard Italian gentile, meaning 'noble'.

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