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Vinony

goy

noun

  1. non-Jew
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɡɔɪ/

name

Etymology: Various origins: * English habitational surname of Norman origin, from any of various places in France called Gouy. * Borrowed from Galician Goy, a habitational surname from a small village in the province of Lugo. * Borrowed from French Goy, a metonymic occupational surname for a farmer, from Old French goi (“bill hook, kind of knife”). * Borrowed from Hokkien 倪 (gê); compare Ni, which derives from the standard Chinese pronunciation of these characters.

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew גּוֹי (goi)bor. Yiddish גוי (goy)bor. English goy Borrowed from Yiddish גוי (goy, “gentile”), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew גּוֹי (goi, “nation”). The term goy does not technically refer to non-Jews, but rather to a nation per se; the Jews are said to constitute a goy. But through common usage – namely referring to "the [other non-Jewish] nations" – the word came to colloquially refer to non-Jews.

  1. A non-Jew, a gentile.

    “I don’t think that marriage is working, but I’m not going to be stupid about it and say she shouldn’t have married a goy.”

  2. Synonym of shabbos goy (“a gentile thought to be subservient to Jewish people”)