This has nothing to do with military matters and is a minor curiousity. I am curious about a Jewish language format:
what is the etymology of the suffixes "im" as in Hassidim, or "niks" as in Kibbutzniks. They are always used in a Jewish context in a collective form to refer to groups of people-in the way which in English the suffixes "men"(I.E. "Englishmen)or "ian"(I.E. Italian)would be used. |