• Rotwelsch (German: [ˈʁoːtvɛlʃ], "beggar's foreign (language)") or Gaunersprache (German: [ˈɡaʊnɐʃpʁaːxə] "crook's language") also Khokhmer Loshn (from...
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    reference refers to the Rotwelsch cant, not its speakers, with no implication of an itinerant lifestyle. Friedrich Kluge: Rotwelsch. Quellen und Wortschatz...
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    had entered Rotwelsch via Yiddish. From around 1540, some editions were titled inaccurately Die Rotwelsch Grammatic (lit. 'The Rotwelsch Grammar'). A...
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    Norwegian, but has heavy lexicon borrowing from Romani and German Rotwelsch. Rotwelsch lexicon has entered through the Yeniche, and Romani lexicon has entered...
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  • heavy lexical borrowings from German Rotwelsch as well as lexical borrowings from Romani too. The German Rotwelsch lexicon found within Norwegian Rodi...
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  • Three heirs to a Judeo-Latin legacy: Judeo-Ibero-Romance, Yiddish, and Rotwelsch. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz. p. 8. ISBN 9783447028134. Wexler, Paul (1988)...
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  • pronounced as TOY-fell) in German (n.b. not the French "toi"). Also from Rotwelsch tof and from Yiddish tov ("good", derived from the Hebrew טוב and with...
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  • Spain's Germanía or French Argot. It is speculated to originate from Rotwelsch. However, the word Bargoens usually refers to the thieves' cant spoken...
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  • criminal underworld (criminals, prostitutes). Rotvælsk, from Denmark Rotwelsch, from Germany Šatrovački, from the former Yugoslavia Scottish Cant, a...
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    saying that the Jews had contributed Hebrew words as a main basis of the Rotwelsch cryptolect. He warned in the admonitory preface Christians not to give...
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