Words that come from Hebrew “-י”

259 words across 45 languages descend from Hebrew -י — including Jewish, Jew, Sinai, Yiddish, Jewishness, Mizrahi, jew, Yid.

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Hebrew (85)

English (46)

German (23)

Portuguese (8)

Yiddish (7)

French (6)

Spanish (6)

Latin (4)

Hungarian (4)

Dutch (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Middle English (4)

Ancient Greek (3)

Italian (3)

Russian (3)

Greek (3)

Old French (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Old High German (3)

Middle High German (3)

Polish (2)

Welsh (2)

Catalan (2)

Faroese (2)

Arabic (2)

Gothic (2)

Czech (1)

Slovak (1)

Tagalog (1)

Danish (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Burmese (1)

Urdu (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Finnish (1)

Coptic (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Ladino (1)

Romanian (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Late Latin (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Words from Hebrew -י — 259 descendants | Etymology Explorer