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<DIV>Dear Lexicolish,</DIV>
<DIV>I would like to draw your attention to the facts you all know that semantic changes and shift are language-universalish. In Arabic deminutives appear as infixes or in other forms, and they are, like most languages, productive. <FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> From a diminutive usage either an<BR>> endearing or a pejorative term can develop, depending on the context or that particular use in some situations.Thus, /kalb/ "a dog" is used as a name of a person "kulayb". In some dialects of Arabic this name can be looked as a pejorative term whereas in other dialects it's a term of endearment.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed">Thank you for your contributions</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed">Muhammad <BR>></FONT><BR><BR><BR><B><I>"Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin" <hsheynin@gratz.edu></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><TT>I encountered another recent -ish adjective New Yorkish, e.g. see<BR>The following title:<BR> New Yorkish : and Other American Yiddish stories / selected and<BR>translated by Max Rosenfeld. Philadelphia : Sholom Aleichem Club Press<BR>; [Southfield] : Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations, c1995. <BR><BR>In general suffixes -ish and -ich are more productive in Jewish American<BR>Speech, most probably under the influence of Yiddish which is carring<BR>these<BR>Germanic suffixes, but as far as I know they do not have a pejorative<BR>meaning. Since the Jews use 'goyim' instead 'Gentiles' to distinguish<BR>between Jews and non-Jews, the adjective goyish was coined, but I do not<BR>know on what stage it was coined, maybe still in Yiddish and only<BR>afterwards was used in American English. <BR><BR>Best
wishes,<BR>Hayim<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Peter Kirk [mailto:peterkirk@qaya.org] <BR>Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:34 PM<BR>To: lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<BR>Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Pejorative suffixes<BR><BR><BR>On 26/03/2005 16:10, David Tuggy wrote:<BR><BR>>**Comments from David Tuggy below**<BR>> <BR>><BR><BR>Thank you, David. Just one further comment:<BR><BR>> <BR>><BR>>... I find it interesting <BR>>that the nationality/language sense, though extensively exemplified, is<BR><BR>>not productive, in comparison with the -ese or especially the -an <BR>>suffixes with those meanings. The only -ish formation of this type that<BR><BR>>I know of being coined in my lifetime is "Yerkish", the language taught<BR><BR>>to chimpanzees at Yerkes, which was likely calqued on "Turkish".**<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>Well, there is "Biblish", which has been extensively used on another <BR>list which you and I are
on. But this is perhaps not so much Bible+-ish <BR>as a compound of Bible and English. But I would agree that -ish for <BR>languages and peoples is no longer productive, having had its day <BR>probably in the 19th century when it was used more widely than today. <BR>"Canaanitish" and "Israelitish" were both used in the 19th century, but <BR>then both are in the King James Bible.<BR><BR>But what about Elvish, Dunlendish, Orkish, and (as languages) Mannish <BR>and Dwarfish? These are 20th century coinages, all in The Lord of the <BR>Rings (most in Appendix F), although maybe before your lifetime!<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Peter Kirk<BR>peter@qaya.org (personal)<BR>peterkirk@qaya.org (work)<BR><A href="http://www.qaya.org/">http://www.qaya.org/</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.<BR>Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.3 - Release Date: 25/03/2005<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Yahoo! Groups
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