The story
- Hebrew · derived fromמשוגע“crazy”
- Yiddish · borrowed fromמשוגעת
- English todaymishegass
Borrowed from Yiddish משוגעת (meshugas), from משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”), from Hebrew משוגע (meshugga`, “crazy”), from שׁוּגַּע (shugga‘, “be driven mad”), שִׁיגַּע (shigga‘, “drive mad”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.