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איינגעשטעלט אין פירלעך This expression occurs in a description of Jews being forced to run for a train that would take them to a concentration camp. Because of the nature of the orthography I do not know if the last word is "firlekh" or "pirlekh"; I am ...

Again about the town of Stolin. In this context, would it be appropriate to translate this as "serfs"? (These workers were Belorussians, not Jews, and the time is about the year 1750.)

From a description of the town of Stolin in Belarus. Could this be translated as "loam"?

From a description of the Jewish community of Stolin, in Belarus. What do these people deal in? I must confess I have never heard of a "honeycomb merchant".

The quotation below is an excerpt from a 16th century Swiss author (Sebastian Münster, as quoted in Weinreich's "Geschichte"), so the language is a bit archaic. I have difficulty with the following expression, and would appreciate help. spatt hangen sie ...

The quotation below is an excerpt from a 16th century Swiss author (Sebastian Münster, as quoted in Weinreich's "Geschichte"), so the language is a bit archaic. I have difficulty with the following expression, and would appreciate help. nummer ruw. Früw

The quotation below is an excerpt from a 16th century Swiss author (Sebastian Münster, as quoted in Weinreich's "Geschichte"), so the language is a bit archaic. I have difficulty with the following expression, and would appreciate help. schwartz rücken ...

This comes from an article rebutting Ghil'ad Zuckermann's view that Israeli Hebrew is not a direct continuation of the language of the Bible and Mishna, but is rather "relexified Yiddish", that is, Yiddish in which the words have been replaced by Hebrew ...

Again from Weinreich's "Geschichte". Can "Halbasien" mean the Near/Middle East? Does the last clause perhaps mean "As soon as progress and education have penetrated to the Middle East [that is, the people who came originally from the M.E.] the final hour ...

from Max Weinreich's "Geschichte der jiddischen Sprachforschung", with reference to the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, in a discussion of why the Yiddish language died out in Germany. I would like either an English translation or an ...

indentured workers

lumber merchant or timber merchant

sandy clay

A translator's note will be appropriate, to explain the significance of the term, as Kurt suggested.

the language is, as has been said, metaphorical. but what I see from the wider context of Jewish history is that the Enlightenment movement did not "relax" or "loosen" (lockern) either robustness or stability (using "robust" (= "healthy") and "stable" in ...

Much to my surprise, "drip-tray" is a set expression in English (see the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary) but to my mind it brings up the image of a tray that collects a few drops now and a few drops then, not appropriate for water cascading off the ...

If Grimm said it, you can't contest it! He was the great man of 19th century linguistics.

Thank you, Jaroslava, for, as usual, an interesting and informative suggestion. On another forum I received the suggestion that these words are a corruption of "lign tor me nisht" = one mustn't lie, and I will go with that.

"convicted to life sentence in Lisboan prison" - written by a native English speaker?

perhaps it means "the stricter document will prevail".

agree that this is very poor English. I can't imagine a native speaker would say this. Certainly should be lead researcher or principal researcher.

I learned something too! I had never heard the term "clay-sand" in English, or I would have used it as my translation. Thanks, Alex.

this is not English.

agree

Even "our guarantee of delivery fails" is not the usual way of saying this.

This does not seem to be correct English. Perhaps translated from some other language or written by a non-native with limited command of English? At any rate I suspect what is meant is "guarantee of delivery fails" (not falls) = there is no longer a ...

To follow up on Richard's suggestion: The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary says that the origin of "dormouse" is unknown, but it came to be associated with "dormir", and the dormouse is known for its long hibernation period. Perhaps this is why Lewis ...

I wrote the above before seeing the answer to the other "Scots Gaelic" question, which makes the same point. My own preference would have been to make this an English to English question, rather than give the wrong language.