Pronounced: full-muh-nate, verb
Notes: I think I confused this word with another word
Yesterday’s word
The word yichus means “prestige, social status, or pedigree”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Yiddish word yichus/yikhus (pedigree), which came from the Hebrew word yihus (pedigree). I suspected Yiddish as the source, as you may have.
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