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Mokum: Modern Hebrew → Yiddish → Dutch · Lexodus

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Mokum

Borrowed from Yiddish מקום (mokem, “place, safe haven”), from Hebrew מקום (makóm, “place”). Amsterdam was named as such because it was a haven for Jewish people fleeing from persecution.

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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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c. 1910Modern Hebrew

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