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essa-- as in ess'a bagel.. (ny corruption of the yidish..eat a bagel..)
Interesting... essa also means "eat" in PA Dutch. Not to be confused with fressa, which refers to the way an animal eats. To use fressa about a person is insulting.
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Tu vientre sabe más
que tu cabesa
Esa
Es la fuerza bella negra
De tu cuerpo desnudo
Signo de selva
El tuyo
Con tus collares rojos
Tus braceletes de oro curvo
Y ese caiman
Nadando en el Zambeze
De tus ojos
-Nicolás Guillen
I typed this from memory, so if I made any mistakes, lo siento. I can't remember the name of the poem[embarrassed-e] but I do remember the translation of the poem.
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essa-- as in ess'a bagel.. (ny corruption of the yiddish..eat a bagel..)
Interesting... essa also means "eat" in PA Dutch. Not to be confused with fressa, which refers to the way an animal eats.
Recursively interesting ... in yiddish, a fresser is one who is eating. (Or a is big eater. I'm not sure which, my reference book having been devoured by our fresser dog.)
Does PA Dutch trace back to German, as does much of yiddish?
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Does PA Dutch trace back to German?
Yes, it is a German dialect. It's similar to Platt Deutsch, which is spoken in some parts of Germany. It's called Pennsylvania "Dutch" because the original settler's reference to themselves and their language as PA Deutsch (PA German) was mis-heard by others as PA Dutch.
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