Talk:קאַוועניק

RFV discussion: November 2018–May 2019
Created by in 2010. I'm no coffee drinker, and the word looks believable, but almost nothing turns up online. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 06:16, 29 November 2018 (UTC)


 * It looks like a loan of Russian кофеник. --Lambiam 11:30, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Uriel Weinreich, Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary, 1968 (1st ed.), page 356, has it, with the same gender. Yiddish is a LDL, right? ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:11, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Also listed in a Yiddish-Russion dictionary. --Lambiam 21:24, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't check my dictionaries, almost hoping that we wouldn't have this issue. I guess it'll pass RFV, but I worry that if I ask an academic Yiddishist, I'll learn that Weinreich coined it. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 23:02, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * The Russian term is, is Bulgarian.
 * Is it possible that there are other Yiddish spellings, and is a normalised spelling or the term is mostly colloquial, seldom used in writing? --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 00:01, 30 November 2018 (UTC)


 * RFV passed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 17:35, 7 May 2019 (UTC)