Date:    Tue, 5 May 1998 22:48:40 -0400
<br>From:    "Bernard W. Kane" <bkane[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TIGGER.JVNC.NET>
<br>Subject: Yiddish?
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<br>I'm submitting "polke" to Random House for consideration for their next
<br>revise, on the strength of 1) quote in TIME March 2 and 2) one from The New
<br>Yorker April 6, and will make CITES from postings to this list quoting the
<br>WSJ and Newsweek which I don't read, but:
<br> have European language people noticed that this is another of those
<br>Yiddish expressions that derive not from the basic Middle High German of
<br>its origin but from one of the Slavic languages that those Jews in the big
<br>Eastern movement who wound up in the Russian Pale picked up in their
<br>travels? It's *not* Germanic; I'm hoping I can find it in
<br>Russian/Ukrainian; closest I've come so far is Polish "poledwica" loin =
<br>thigh. Any Slavic language experts help in this etymology?
<br>
<br>Bernie Kane
<br>word-finder
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