DOUBLET
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
|
1998
|
|
© Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information)
Copyright
DOUBLET. 1. One of two or more WORDS derived from one source:
fragile/frail, from Latin
fragilis, the first directly, the second through Old
FRENCH frele. Three such words are
triplets:
cattle/chattel/capital, from
LATIN capitale. Some doublets show little resemblance:
thesaurus/treasure, from GREEK
thesaurós (a store), the first directly through Latin, the second through Latin then Old French
trésor. Doublets vary in closeness of meaning as well as form:
guarantee/warranty are fairly close in form and have almost the same meaning;
abbreviate/abridge are distant in form but close in meaning (though they serve distinct ends);
costume/custom are fairly close in form but distant in meaning, but both relate to human activities. See
COGNATE,
NORSE.
2. A game invented in the 1870s by Lewis
CARROLL, in which a given word should be changed, letter by letter and always forming another word, into a second given word: for example, ‘drive
pig into sty’ in the sequence
pig,
wig,
wag,
way,
say,
sty. Carroll called the given words
doublets, the interposed words
links, and the complete series a
chain.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
|
For the Yiddish language, it's no time to say, Oy vay!
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 1/31/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...have enough knowledge of the language needed to read a newspaper...words from Hebrew and Slavic languages. Yiddish flourished as both a language and a culture -with newspapers...1900s. Before World War II, Yiddish was the daily language of...
|
|
Yiddish Devotees Fight to Save Language
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/10/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...2006, at Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel, a Yiddish-language Hasidic school in Chicago. Yiddish is flourishing at the school but devotees...Now, around 100,000 do. New York's Yiddish-language Forward newspaper reflects the decline...
|
|
YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE MAINTAINING A VIBRANT APPEAL
News Wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency; 3/4/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Jewish Telegraphic Agency 03-04-1994 YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE MAINTAINING A VIBRANT APPEAL. A Yiddish summer language institute had to turn...Research's Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture offers a six...
|
|
The Yiddish Kvetch: relating language to culture.(Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Midstream; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...even be that their language has no subordinate...who understood how languages develop to serve their societies. Yiddish, a Jewish language, reflected the needs...Italian, the Jewish language I know best after Yiddish, most of the words...Germanic origin. But both languages ...
|
|
Yiddish Lives - A Language That Refuses to Die.
Magazine article from: World and I; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...wrote in a dying language. His reply: "Yiddish has been dying for...ends Any fear that Yiddish rather than Hebrew...Israel's national language ended in the 1950s...to the fact that Yiddish was the primary language of their parents...
|
|
Inventing Yiddish: Observations on the rise of a "debased" language
Magazine article from: Judaism; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...currently enjoyed by Yiddish in the United States...new interest in the language includes not only an increase in Yiddish courses at U.S. colleges...granted, Miron notes that Yiddish was far from the natural language of choice for Jewish...
|
|
Mameloshn Thriving in Montreal; Bialik School Teaches in Yiddish -- and Three Other Languages
Newspaper article from: Forward; 8/13/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...speak four languages fluently...do so in the language closest to...in eloquent Yiddish, "...Duss...at Bialik, Yiddish is not just a language -- it's...variety of languages, including Yiddish. Capping off...
|
 "The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)")
|
School brings Yiddish to life: a lesson in language and culture.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA); 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...film stereotype, Yiddish--the modern ancestral language of Ashkenazi Jews...contributing tongues, Yiddish is non-territorial...informally on a second language. "It's another...finally right for Yiddish to enjoy a contemporary...
|
|
Jews struggle to save vanishing Yiddish: Young and old try to preserve fading ancient language
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/4/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...HASIDIC SCHOOL New York's Yiddish-language Forward newspaper reflects...whose victims were mostly Yiddish speakers, he said. Israel...adopt Hebrew as its state language also caused many Jews to shirk from Yiddish. "When Jewish immigrants...
|
|
|
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Once and Future Yiddish Language; Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
Newspaper article from: Forward; 10/29/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Jews of the importance of Yiddish. In a column some years ago...toward the rising popularity of Yiddish studies on the fact that the language finds supporters among...homosexuals.) Rather, he presents Yiddish, together with other smaller languages, as a symphonic alternative...
|
|
Yiddish language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Yiddish language , a member of the West Germanic group...subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ; German language ). Although it is not a national language, Yiddish is spoken as a first language by approximately...
|
|
Yiddish
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
YIDDISH A vernacular language used by Ashkenazic Jews. A language...in Europe in which it was spoken, Yiddish is the vernacular used by Ashkenazic...liturgy and religious scholarship, Yiddish, by the end of the eighteenth century...
|
|
YIDDISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...Israel, and the Soviet Union. Yiddish is a Germanic language akin to English, but with...It is the only Germanic language to be written in a non-Roman alphabet: like other Jewish languages, Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet...
|
|
Yiddish Theatre in America
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Stalinist purge of Russia, Yiddish theatres all but disappeared...tradition resurrected some Yiddish productions in various venues...fewer Americans spoke the old language, many were translated and...well. It is unlikely that the Yiddish theatre will ever become a...
|
|
The Heyday of the Foreign-Language Press
Book article from: American Decades
...THE HEYDAY OF THE FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PRESS A Nation of Immigrants...bringing with them a diversity of languages and cultures that America...nineteenth century, most foreign-language papers were run by intellectuals...German-, Polish-, and Yiddish-language papers claimed...such as Abraham ...
|
