haimish

[elainegrey]

Today in my NYTimes reading, twice, the word "haimish," which i don't recall ever seeing before.

From Wikipedia: Haimish (also Heimish): Home-like, friendly, folksy (Yiddish היימיש heymish, cf. German heimisch)

Comments

[weofodthignen]

Yes, Yiddish is still a mammaloschen in NYC, although I didn't realize till I came to the US how few of the Yiddishisms I'd picked up from old movies were current in normal American slang.

[zyzyly]

There is someone that calls me Haimish in Second Life, for some random reason.

[didotwite]

Yeah that was my thought too. (Danish)

In tough/polarized times prior to the early unified Germany (pre1850s) the aesthetic and political sense ran towards Biedermeier. Everything goes in cycles...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biedermeier

Yet it seems like few use that word for obvs reasons plus the oddness/extra syllables

[warriorsavant]

Being ethnically (although not religiously) Jewish, there are a few Yiddish words I use almost at part of being the English language (although less than I used to). I was 25 before I realized that capisce was Italian, not Yiddish. Still, I somehow thought that hamish was English.