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matzo

The flat unleavened bread of Passover. Its English form, with first-syllable stress, comes mostly through Yiddish matse from Hebrew maṣṣāh, and Yiddish also gave it to German, Polish, Russian and Hungarian.

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From Biblical Hebrew to Modern Hebrew

From Yiddish to German

From Yiddish to Polish

From Yiddish to Russian

From Yiddish to Hungarian

700 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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