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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

My guess would be that the word made it into the English vocabulary via Yiddish.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

It exists with different spellings in all the Scandinavian languages as well, borrowed from old Saxon.