Etymology

Litvish

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Today it means: The dialect of Yiddish spoken in Lithuania, Belarus, southern Latvia, northern and eastern Ukraine, and western Russia. Full definition →

Yiddish ליטוויש
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  1. Yiddish · borrowed fromליטוויש
  2. English todayLitvish

Borrowed from Yiddish ליטוויש (litvish).

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