[Mesorah] piyyut / poetry

[Mandel, Seth]

And the form “piyyut” is a fake form, to make it look as if it were Hebrew. In the old mss., the form is written פייט, which would represent the Hebrew pronunciation of the  Greek word “poet” I.e. something like peh with a qomatz , a glide vowell, and yod with a seghol.
And that was the traditional pronunciation of the word in Yiddish: /PA-yet/.
Words are such very interesting things. They carry in them years, sometimes millennia, of history. Despite the efforts of some grammarians to change them to fit their notions of proper.


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On September 3, 2020 at 9:12:30 AM EDT, Jeremy Rosenbaum Simon via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:
As with many words in the mishna, “piyyut” is originally from a Greek word.
Jeremy

On Sep 3, 2020, at 9:00 AM, Sholom Simon via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org<mailto:mesorah at lists.aishdas.org>> wrote:


I always assumed "poetry" was some sort of derivation of "piyyut".

So, I consulted The Google, and found this at a Miriam-Webster site:

'Poet' comes from a Greek word meaning "to make."

The word poet, which has been in use in English for more than 600 years, comes from the Greek word poiētēs, itself from poiein, meaning "to make." The word also shares an ancestor with the Sanskrit word cinoti, meaning "he gathers, heaps up."

Really?!

Thoughts?

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