Publications

Publication details [#46764]

Timm, Erika. 2005. Historische jiddische Semantik. Die Bibelübersetzungssprache als Faktor der Auseinanderentwicklung des jiddischen und des deutschen Wortschatzes. [Historical Yiddish Semantics. The language of Bible translation as a factor in the progressive divergence between Yiddish and German vocabulary.] De Gruyter. VIII+ 736 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

German

Keywords

idiom | lexicon | standard1 | translation

Language as a subject

German | Yiddish

Annotation

Drawing on texts from the late 14th to the 18th century, this study considers the contribution of the language employed in the Yiddish Bible translation to the progressive divergence between the Yiddish and German lexicon.