reply to post by buds84
Hence the term Jew"ish"
This is silly. It only works in English to say that the Jews are only Jew-"ish".
The German words for Jewish/jewish are
Jüdischen/jüdisch. Yes, they have "isch" in there but it doesn't mean "sorta like". It denotes
where something is from. (Italienisch, französisch, ungarisch, etc.)
Jewish in Spanish is
Judía/judío. Hungarian has Jewish as
Zsidó. In French, it is
Juive/juif. To my knowledge, none of
those words has anything in it that equates to the "ish" slang usage in English. (I say "ish" slang because, since English came from German, the
"ish" has the same function, only spelled differently.)
All that aside, if we're going to take this "jew-ish" thing all the way, are we to assume, and say, that the Engl
ish, Ir
ish,
Finn
ish, Dan
ish, Scot
ish, and Swed
ish are only some half-blood impostors of the true Nordic peoples or some nonsense like
that? I think not.