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Translate Polish to English online Many words were borrowed from the German language from the sizable German population in Polish cities during medieval times. German words found in the Polish language are often connected with trade, the building industry, civic rights and city life. Some words were assimilated verbatim, for example handel and dach ; others are pronounced similarly, but differ in writing Schnur—sznur . As a result, many Polish words come from Yiddish, spoken by the large Polish Jewish population that existed until the Holocaust. Borrowed Yiddish words include bachor , bajzel , belfer , ciuchy , cymes , geszeft , kitel , machlojka , mamona , manele , myszygene , pinda , plajta , rejwach , szmal , and trefny . Polish has, over the centuries, borrowed a number of words from other languages. When borrowing, pronunciation was adapted to Polish phonemes and spelling was altered to match Polish orthography. Latin was known to a larger or smaller degree by most of the nume