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Kies: Modern Hebrew → Yiddish → German · Lexodus

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Kiesdosh

From Rotwelsch (underworld slang), from Yiddish קיס (kis, “pouch”), from Hebrew כיס (kîs), influenced by etymology 1 through association with Steine (“bucks, money”, literally “stones”).

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This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

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Wiktionary: Kies (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wiktextract / kaikki.org

c. 1910Modern Hebrew

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c. 1930
c. 1950

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.