נישטיקייט
Yiddish edit
Etymology edit
נישט (nisht) + ־יקייט (-ikeyt). Compare German Nichtigkeit.
Noun edit
נישטיקייט • (nishtikeyt) f, plural נישטיקייטן (nishtikeytn)
- nullity, futility, banality, vanity, negligibility, insignificance
- (in the plural) trivia
- Synonym: טריוויע (trivye)
References edit
- Beinfeld, Solon, Bochner, Harry (2013) “נישטיקייט”, in Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN
- Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “trivia”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN
- Justus van de Kamp et al., “נישטיקײט” in Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek [Yiddish-Dutch Dictionary], Amsterdam: Stichting Jiddische Lexicografie, 1987-present (ongoing). [1].