- House's
American Slang,
claim that the term
comes from the
German word
glitschen 'to slip' and the
Yiddish word
glitshn 'to slide, to skid'.
Either way...
-
malfunction (גליטש, glitsh, from גליטשן, glitshn, 'slide'; cf. German:
glitschen, 'slither'; AHD) Golem: A man-made humanoid; an android, Frankenstein...
- (e.g.
deutsch < OHG diutisc) or in
words with
expressive quality (e.g.
glitschen, hutschen). [tʃ] is, however, well-established in loanwords, including...
