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[โ€“] altasshet@lemmy.ca 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

My guess would be that the word made it into the English vocabulary via Yiddish.

[โ€“] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 3 hours ago

It exists with different spellings in all the Scandinavian languages as well, borrowed from old Saxon.