The story
- Yiddish · derived fromשלאָג“strike”
- Yiddish · derived fromזילבער“silver”
- Yiddish · borrowed fromזילבערשלאָג
- English todayZilberschlag
Borrowed from Yiddish זילבערשלאָג (zilbershlog), from Yiddish זילבער (zilber, “silver”) and Yiddish שלאָג (shlog, “strike”), from Middle High German.
Words from the same roots
Yiddishזילבער all →
Zilberstein
First known use, by meaning
- 20th c. A surname from Yiddish
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.