• altasshet@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    My guess would be that the word made it into the English vocabulary via Yiddish.

    • bstix@feddit.dk
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      1 month ago

      It exists with different spellings in all the Scandinavian languages as well, borrowed from old Saxon.