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Thread #32792   Message #2513651
Posted By: Reinhard
12-Dec-08 - 01:33 PM
Thread Name: Frequently misspelled/confused names.
Subject: RE: Frequently misspelled/confused names.
Dave, Yiddish is a Germanic language, but it is not modern German. Its vocabulary is based on Early and Middle High German.
My Yiddish dictionary (Siegmund A. Wolf, Jiddisches Wörterbuch, Hamburg: Buske 1991) translates German 'bei' and 'schön' as Yiddish 'bay' and either 'schen' or 'schein'. Besides, in German the song title would be 'Für mich bist Du schön' or words to that effect.
Reinhard