Etymology

shmatte

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Today it means: A rag. Full definition →

Yiddish שמאַטע ← Polish szmata
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The story

  1. Polish · derived fromszmata
  2. Yiddish · borrowed fromשמאַטע
  3. English todayshmatte

Borrowed from Yiddish שמאַטע (shmate); originally from Polish szmata.

Words from the same roots

Yiddishשמאַטע all →

schmutter

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.