I did it: I missed posting yesterday. Plain old just forgot. My only excuse is that I was sleep-deprived and not highly functional. Oh well, I'll make it up by posting 1 January 2019
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I am quite sure a Delle is a bump in Yiddish too! I distinctly remember my grandmom, who only spoke czech and yiddish, talking about how a Russian soldier hit her husband on the head and broke a piece of bone, reason why he was left with a "graisliche dellen" on his brow forever!
Your reply led me to Google-the-All-knowing which had this to say:
In 1911 Ernst Fuchs described as “Dellen” (dimples) saucer-like excavations at the margin of the cornea, usually forming ellipses parallel with the limbus. These dimples cause little disturbance, and rarely last more than forty-eight hours. They are associated with swelling at the limbus from various causes, may occur with hemeralopia or paralytic lagophthalmus, may follow administration of cocaine or operation for cataract, or may appear spontaneously in old people.
Certainly someone named Ernst Fuchs knew German and may even have known Yiddish OR Yiddish adopted the word from the German.
I am an old person who might well have had the Dellen "appear spontaneously," although my ophthalmologist seemed to feel that their rummaging around in the corneal area was the likely cause.
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In 1911 Ernst Fuchs described as “Dellen” (dimples) saucer-like excavations at the margin of the cornea, usually forming ellipses parallel with the limbus. These dimples cause little disturbance, and rarely last more than forty-eight hours. They are associated with swelling at the limbus from various causes, may occur with hemeralopia or paralytic lagophthalmus, may follow administration of cocaine or operation for cataract, or may appear spontaneously in old people.
Certainly someone named Ernst Fuchs knew German and may even have known Yiddish OR Yiddish adopted the word from the German.
I am an old person who might well have had the Dellen "appear spontaneously," although my ophthalmologist seemed to feel that their rummaging around in the corneal area was the likely cause.
It's gone now. FanSee
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