[lbo-talk] Obscure question on origin of ethnic slur

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Jul 7 17:37:10 PDT 2005


Chris Doss wrote:


>Hi y'all,
>
>Maybe somebody out there can answer something for me.
>Nowadays, the derogatory Russian word for Jew is
>"Zhid," which I've always thought was taken from the
>German and always had a negative connotation.
>
I don't know about the German provenance. The "kike" word in Romanian is "Jidan" -- pronounced "zhidaan". Asked my mom if there was a more generic meaning, but she said not so far as she knew.

Joanna



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