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prettygoodwordIt's Yiddishkeit Redux week.
yenta - n., a gossip, busybody.
From the Yiddish woman's name Yente, which was the name of the title character of a Yiddish-language comic strip by "B. Kovner" (Jacob Adler) which ran in the Jewish Daily Forward in the 1920s–1930s, which name in turn is the feminine form of Yentl, from Italian gentile, kind, gentle, from Latin.
---L.
yenta - n., a gossip, busybody.
From the Yiddish woman's name Yente, which was the name of the title character of a Yiddish-language comic strip by "B. Kovner" (Jacob Adler) which ran in the Jewish Daily Forward in the 1920s–1930s, which name in turn is the feminine form of Yentl, from Italian gentile, kind, gentle, from Latin.
---L.
