brifka

Yiddish בריווקע (brivke, “little letter”), a diminutive of Yiddish בריוו (briv), meaning a (postal) letter. Brifka is thus a "little letter". In turn derived from Old High German briaf, which is borrowed from Latin breve, a neuter form of Latin brevis (“short”). Cognates include Middle Dutch, Middle High German brief, and Dutch brief, Old Norse bréf, Old Saxon brēf (all of them borrowed from Latin)[1][2] and English brief.

brifka (countable and uncountable, plural brifkas)

1. a small folding envelope used for keeping diamonds or other gemstones in
   • 2014, Echo Freer, Diamond Geezers:

     With a pair of tweezers, he removed a dazzling rose-coloured crystal from the brifka

2. by extension a gem envelope including its contents

• brifkôcz

Borrowed from German Briefträger + -ka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrifka/
• Syllabification: brif‧ka

brifka f

1. postman

   Synonyms: lëstowi, lëstownik

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “listonosz”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “brifka”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• “brifka”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022