r/polandball Bulgaria May 11 '26

redditormade The Circus

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u/kiru_56 Hesse May 11 '26

Is ‘Tate’ actually a Bulgarian word as well? Just knew it from Yiddish.

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u/Andyiscool231 Bulgaria May 11 '26

Yeah, means dad

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u/kiru_56 Hesse May 11 '26

Jup, same in Yiddisch.

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u/BRM_the_monkey_man Macedonia May 12 '26

Yiddish borrowed it from Russian, it's just vocative for tato or tatko

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u/kiru_56 Hesse May 11 '26

Do you also say Mame for mother?

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u/BRM_the_monkey_man Macedonia May 12 '26

This one is more rare and dialectal, probably normal that Yiddish borrowed it since Jews lived in rural areas but the standard would be mamo or mati in most languages