English corresponding to Hebrew

sofa & ??????

‘lishkol’ in hebrew means to weigh. Possibly related to the word ‘scale’?

What about ‘rogil’ and ‘regular’?

???? = diSTRuct

seven = ???

Moishy

mesa or masser is knife in yiddish

Regarding copacetic – It first appeared in a dictionary in 1919, and it is almost certain to have originated in the USA. The two theories that have been put forward regarding hebrew origins are that Jewish shopkeepers in the south may have used the phrase hakol b’seder or hakol b’tzedek, and this may have been heard by gentiles as copacetic. The problem is that no-one used everyday hebrew conversationally at the time, certainly not in the US. A Jewish shopkeeper would have been much more likely to say “alles is in ordnung” in Yiddish/German than to use Hebrew. Hakol b’seder is an Israeli expression that came into use at the earliest after WW2, so it obviously cannot have influenced usage in 1919. There is no consensus on what the origin of the word is, but almost all etymologists discount a Hebrew origin.

“If you start comparing English and Yiddish most words will be almost the same.”

But it does not work this way with slavic languages. I add equivalents in Russian, only a few words sound almost the same.

nose = nooz = ??? (nos)

hand = hant = ???? (ruka)

ear = oiyer = ??? (uho) h- like in “cholim”

good = gut = ?????? (horosho) h – like in “cholim”

year = yohr = ??? (god)

brerad = broit = ???? (hleb) h – like in “cholim”

butter = puter = ????? (maslo)

milk = milech = ?????? (moloko)

cheese = kayz = ??? (sir)

father = fohter = ???? (otetz)

mother = muter = ???? (mat’)

brother = bruder = ???? (brat)

sister = shvester = ?????? (sestra)

month = monat = ????? (mesjatz)

hear = hoor = ??????? (slishat’)

hour = oor = ??? (chas)ch – like in “cholen”

side = zeit = ??????? (storona)

soup = zup = ??? (sup)

salt = zaltz = ???? (sol’)

water = vaser = ???? (voda)

cold = kalt = ????? (holodno)h – like in “cholim”

hot = heis = ????? (zharko)

warm = varem = ????? (teplo)

arm = orem = ???? (ruka)

stay = shtein = ???? (stoj)

stone = shtein = ?????? (kamen’)

go = gei = ??? (idi)

gold = guld = ?????? (zoloto)

silver = zilber = ??????? (serebro)

coper = kuper = ???? (med’)

diamond = dimant = ????? (almaz)

Oomis, this is from the Oxford English Dictionary, 1919,

You may be unfamiliar with early American jazz music, but it was a term well used by jazz musicians in common usage between ww1 and ww2, growing in popularity and beyond the jazz culture during that time.

oomis, I’m a fan of your posts and I don’t want to come across as negative or critical so please take my disagreement as a matter of academic interest, and nothing else. I’ve studied history extensively and etymology a little, with broad non-academic interest in both. I’m familiar with primary source material from the US military during the second word war, from American historians like Stephen Ambrose and Carlo D’este and ex-soldiers like E.B. Sledge, where many US soldiers are quoted, and I’ve seen the word used several times. It must be understood that there were virtually no speakers of colloquial, conversational Hebrew outside of Israel before the 1950’s, and the word copacetic definitely showed up before that. Also, from an etymological point of view, there isn’t much difference in usage between “he’s cool” and “it’s OK”. Finally, had you considered that a US soldier hearing an Israeli saying Hakol Beseder, as you suggest, simply misheard a hebrew phrase for an already extant colloquially used word in American english, and that is the extent of it, a similarity?