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Where does “יהודי” come from?

יהודי (Hebrew) comes from Hebrew י, from Hebrew יָד — hand.

יהודי (Hebrew): Jewish: being a Jew, or relating to Jews or...

Definitions

  1. Jewish: being a Jew, or relating to Jews or...

Ancestry of “יהודי”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hebrewיten; {{n-g|one of the letters of the...
2Hebrewיָדhand

Words derived from “יהודי”

  • Jewish
  • Jew
  • Yiddish
  • Jewishness
  • jew
  • Yid
  • Yiddishkeit
  • Jewishly
  • Yehudim
  • judenrein
  • Jewification
  • Jewy
  • Jewman
  • Jewless
  • Jewify
  • Jewdom
  • Yiddo
  • Jewland
  • Jewfucker
  • ex-Jewish
  • Jewishish
  • Jewlessness
  • un-Jewish
  • Jewspeak
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