tatysch or dyatsch   Ajd and Olve you seem to disagree on this which is it  Also the second yod in Yiddish looked like question marks for me before but Olves edit fixed that  Was there a reason you changed it back Ajd       The Yiddish word for German is daytsh not taytshthats why I changed that back though if I can be convinced that it was taytsh at the time in question Ill accept it The yod was a mistake Ill fix that    Well you missed the same problem in the word daytsch      The traditional form used in connection with Yiddish is the T form In connection with mainly nonJewish German D is often used but then normally in the form daytshish er e In older Western Yiddish the pronunciation would often be ttsch with unrounding opening firstcomponent lengthening and subsequent monophthongisation of the historic diphthong and the word would often be written as  Yiddish tsu taytshn also with a Tet rather than Daled comes from the same root and means to translate into Yiddish  The reason I changed the ay digraph into two Yods was that the explicit ay digraph is a de facto deprecated form which is not displayed properly in most generally available Hebrew fonts  By the way My qualifications for writing about Yiddish include a university degree in linguistics including dialectography and ethnomusicology in addition to years of studying comparative linguistics with an emphasis on Germanic languages on my own An example of my work with Yiddish may be seen here httputnenvgorgjjiddisch      Taitsh is the definite traditional form in Yiddish  and glyphs above the normal range for Hebrew are not supported by most Hebrew fonts I am going to wait a little bit for additional input and then go ahead with my edits unless someone can show compelling evidence countering those of my contributions which were removed by Ajd     OK  I have checked Weinreichs Modern EnglishYiddish YiddishEnglish dictionary and here is a summary of what it says    German  a Yiddish version of the Pentateuch  interpret It is clear from this that the distinction between daytsh meaning German and taytsh meaning Yiddish is still valid I will therefore change the Yiddish back to yidishtaytsh      This doesnt make anything clear at all If daytsh means German why shouldnt the form meaning Jewish German be yidish daytsh That is daytsh means the language and taytsh is a related word that means translation or something like that So shouldnt yidish taytsh be Jewish translation not Jewish German   Also if most Hebrew fonts cant show a pasekhtsveyyudn Id say the fault is with them not with us for using it but    I do not think it should be that unclear The inherited Yiddish form is taytsh The newer concept of German nationality is denoted by the loanword daytsh  a lightly Yiddishised form of German Deutsch This word is also frequently found in the form daytshish That taytsh and daytsh have different meanings is not any different from hotel and hospital having different meanings The fact that Yiddish daytsh means specifically German as opposed to Yiddish can be illustrated by the word  daytshmerish  a word which means too much like German said of modern words or phrases sporadically used in Yid but not accepted by cultivated stylists Weinreich  p  You ask If daytsh means German why shouldnt the form meaning Jewish German be yidish daytsh The answer to that is It isnt  and part of the reason is that Jewish German is not exactly what the term means It would be great if someone could come up with a better translation As for the form Yidish Daytsh with a Daled part of its problem is in fact that it is to daytshmerish Coming to think of it Ladino is an interesting parallel Ladino in its classical JudeoSpanish Spanish and Portuguese form denotes the translation of Hebrew a