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