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have a lexicon of German words of Yiddish origin right
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size=3>front of me. The expressions are great. I love this
Chuzpe.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=3>enlightening. It certainly does not come from German.
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size=3>Maybe Hayim Sheynin, member of this list,
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size=3>Fritz</FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></FONT><TT>On 19/02/2005 01:43, Fritz
Goerling wrote:<BR><BR>>...<BR>><BR>>Hebrew "chutzpah" is an
interesting word, too. Where does it<BR>>come from? <BR>><BR>>
<BR>><BR>Good question. Could it in fact be a from a variant of the
biblical <BR>Hebrew root qof-tsade-pe "anger"? The initial "ch" is more
likely to <BR>represent het, but there is no bibical root
het-tsade-pe.<BR><BR>Or could it be from German via Yiddish?<BR><BR>--
<BR>Peter Kirk<BR>peter@qaya.org (personal)<BR>peterkirk@qaya.org (work)<BR><A
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