英语词汇oy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Oy! A Yiddish expression that is uttered by Americans of dozens of religions, races, and former nationalities. “Oy is not a word,” Leo Rosten writes in The Joys of Yiddish (1968). “It is a vocabulary. It is uttered in as many ways as the utterer’s histri- onic ability permits. It is a lament, a protest, a cry of dismay, a reflex of delight. But however sighed, cried, howled or moaned, oy! is the most expressive and ubiquitous exclamation in Yid- dish.” Oy vay!, a shortening of oy vay iz mir, is also used as an “all-purpose ejaculation,” Rosten notes. He doesn’t list oy gevald, which Henry Roth used as “a cry of alarm, concern or amazement” in From Bondage (1996). However, he does list gevalt or gevald alone as the same kind of cry and cites the folk proverb, “Man comes into the world with an Oy!—and leaves with a gevalt.”

词汇	oy
词源	Oy! A Yiddish expression that is uttered by Americans of dozens of religions, races, and former nationalities. “Oy is not a word,” Leo Rosten writes in The Joys of Yiddish (1968). “It is a vocabulary. It is uttered in as many ways as the utterer’s histri- onic ability permits. It is a lament, a protest, a cry of dismay, a reflex of delight. But however sighed, cried, howled or moaned, oy! is the most expressive and ubiquitous exclamation in Yid- dish.” Oy vay!, a shortening of oy vay iz mir, is also used as an “all-purpose ejaculation,” Rosten notes. He doesn’t list oy gevald, which Henry Roth used as “a cry of alarm, concern or amazement” in From Bondage (1996). However, he does list gevalt or gevald alone as the same kind of cry and cites the folk proverb, “Man comes into the world with an Oy!—and leaves with a gevalt.”
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