Vocabulary comics: "schmatta"

Sep 19, 2014 02:33

This is copy/pasted from my submission to the awesomely dorky community 1word1day!


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ms_verma September 19 2014, 15:50:08 UTC
Is schmatta a word of Jewish/Yiddish origin? I'm asking because - funny thing - in Polish, we have the word szmata, pronounced very much like schmatta and having both of the above meanings (plus another one, more offensive, used to imply that a person is a slut). That similarity (plus the fact that just until WW2, there was a lot of Jewish people in Poland) led me to thinking that maybe schmatta was "borrowed" from the Jewish/Yiddish language at some point? ;)

That said, I just want to add I love your pictures! :D

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