Hebrew

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Root
נ־ט־ל (n-ṭ-l)

Verb

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ניטל / נִטַּל (nitál) (nif'al construction)

  1. to be taken away (from)

Conjugation

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Verb

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ניטל / נִטֵּל (nitél) (pi'el construction)

  1. (archaic, transitive) to lift, raise
    • Tanach, Isaiah 63:9, with Young's Literal Translation:
      בְּאַהֲבָתוֹ וּבְחֶמְלָתוֹ הוּא גְאָלָם וַיְנַטְּלֵם וַיְנַשְּׂאֵם כָּל־יְמֵי עוֹלָם
      b'ahavató uvchemlató hú g'alám vay'nat'lém vay'nas'ém kol-y'mé olám
      In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth them all the days of old

Conjugation

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Yiddish

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin nātālis (birthday [of Christ), probably via an older form of a Romance language rather than a direct borrowing. Compare בענטשן (bentshn); the semantics and likely dates of several such relatively essential terms being descended from Romance over Germanic suggests Yiddish may have a distant root in Jewish Vulgar Latin dialects, among other sources.

Noun

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ניטל (nitlm, plural ניטלען (nitlen)

  1. Christmas, Nittel

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