The story
- Hebrew · derived fromמֹשֶׁה“Moses”
- Yiddish · derived fromמשה“Moses”
- Dutch · borrowed fromsmous
- Afrikaans · borrowed fromsmous
- English todaysmous
Borrowed from Afrikaans smous or Dutch smous, from a Yiddish word whose precise origin is uncertain. One theory is that it derives from Yiddish משה (moyshe, “Moses”), pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (moshé, “Moses”).
Words from the same roots
Yiddishמשה all →
Moishe
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.