Pronunciations

Definitions

• interj. An Ashkenazi holiday greeting.
  

Example Sentences

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew
• Yiddish

Etymology

• גוט יום־טובֿ gut yontef 'happy holiday lit. good good-day'
  

Who Uses This

• Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
• Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
• Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older

Regions

• North America
• Great Britain
• South Africa
• Australia / New Zealand
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Dictionaries

• Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
• Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
• Yinglish: A Lexicon of Judeo-English by Aliza Bulow

Alternative Spellings

gut yontif, gut yomtef, gut yomtif, gut yontof, gut yomtof, gut yontev, gut yomtev, gut yontiv, gut yomtiv, gut yontov, gut yomtov, gut yom-tov, gut yom tov, good yuntif, good yontif, good yom-tov