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שלימזל: Modern Hebrew → Middle High German → Yiddish · Lexodus

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שלימזל

From Middle High German slim (“crooked”) and Hebrew מַזָּל (mazzāl, “luck”). For the first part, cf. modern German schlimm (“bad, awful”).

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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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c. 1910
c. 1910
c. 1930

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