The words in Yiddish for a compatriot are Landsman (masc.) Landsfroy (fem.)
and Landslayt (pl.) There is no landsmen.
Sincerely,
Ida Selavan Schwarcz
Arad, Israel
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Dear Fellow Genners,

Please click on:

http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/landsmen.htm

for a new article by Bill Farran and Logan Lockabey, who discovered their
family connections via photos posted on JewishGen's Viewmate.
Fran Bock, Editor
Belarus SIG Online Newsletter
franbock@...

These are clearly English speakers applying English grammatical structures
to a foreign word. This happens all the time in all languages and is one of
the ways foreign words ultimately become non-foreign words. It happens all
the more readily when it is a word like "landsman" which "looks like" an
English word.

--
Peter Zavon
Penfield, NY

"Ida & Joseph Schwarcz" <idayosef@...> wrote in message
news:MABBIOPGCNMGJEJNPOFLCECAGHAA.idayosef@......

Sounds wonderful; am looking forward to reading it.
Susan Viuker Lieberman




"Subject: Belarus Newsletter Creation
From: jeni.armandez@...
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 13:16:29 -0700 (PDT)> X-Message-Number: 2
Greetings!
We are excited to announce that the Belarus Sig will be creating a
newsletter (quarterly and available in PDF format). If you have any
family history, links,questions or stories >from Belarus that you
would like to share, please send it belarusnews@...
Please be sure to include any family names and shtetls that you are aware
of. The deadline for information submission will be June 4th, 2012. We
look forward to hearing >from you! Thank you,"

Charna Duchanov
and Jeni Armandez
Belarus News Group