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Linguistics | | English term or phrase: there is | | Is it s'gibt or s'gib ? |
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28 mins confidence:  (e)s iz do/(e)s zaynen do
Explanation:
s'gibt is too German.
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Note added at 13 hrs (2009-05-15 09:44:09 GMT)
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I see. I gave you the standard Yiddish, while the song comes from Poland and was therefore written in the Polish Yiddish dialect, which is closer to German. So, my feeling is that the 's'gibt' is original.
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Asker: Please see: http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/index.php?id=kalt
I'm trying to understand if it was really "s'gibt" or if it was "Germanized" later.
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