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
• Australia / New Zealand
• Great Britain
• South Africa

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).

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