Etymology

Zarphatic

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Today it means: An extinct Romance language, formerly spoken among the French Jews of northern France and in parts of west-central Germany. Full definition →

Hebrew צָרְפַת
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The story

  1. Hebrew · derived fromצָרְפַת“France”
  2. English todayZarphatic

From Hebrew צָרְפַת (tsar'fát, “France”) + -ic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.