#88 Yeled, Who Are You Kidding?

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

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Summary

The Hebrew word ילד – 'child' – comes from the root 'y.l.d' – י.ל.ד – which has made a huge career for itself in Semitic languages. This is a great example of how one root behaves in different verb patterns, keeping the stem meaning but then providing us with exciting branches of it.

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New Words and Expressions:

Yeled – Kid, boy – ילד

Yalda – Girl – ילדה

"Kulanu yeladim shel ha-chayim" – We are all children of life – כולנו ילדים של החיים

"Yaldey ha-yare'ach" – "Children of the moon" – ילדי הירח

"Hu ya'aseh lach yeled" – He will have a child with you – הוא יעשה לך ילד

Ta'aseh li yeled – Give me a child – תעשה לי ילד

Hi yalda – She gave birth – היא ילדה

Hi yalda ben/bat – She gave birth to a boy/girl – היא ילדה בן/בת

"Eich shir nolad?" – How is a song born? – איך שיר נולד

Hu nolad – He was born – הוא נולד

"Ma nolad?" – What was born (a boy or a girl)? – מה נולד

Nolad lo ben – He had a boy – נולד לו בן

Nolda lahem bat – They have a little girl – נולדה להם בת

"Ani noladti la-shalom" – I was born to peace – אני נולדתי לשלום

"Rak etmol nolda" – She was just born yesterday – רק אתמול נולדה

Hi nolda – She was born – היא נולדה

Hu yiled – He delivered a baby – הוא יילד

Hi yilda – She delivered a baby – היא יילדה

Meyaledet – Midwife – מיילדת

Leyaled – To deliver (baby) – ליילד

Lehityaled – To speak or behave childishly – להתיילד

Hu holid – He fathered – הוא הוליד

"Zeh holid be'ayot chadashot" – It brought new problems – זה הוליד בעיות חדשות

Yaldoot – Childhood – ילדות

Yalduti – Infantile – ילדותי

Yaldutiyoot – Childishness / immaturity – ילדותיות

Huledet – Birth – הולדת

Yom huledet, yomuledet – Birthday – יום הולדת, יומולדת

Leida – Delivery (Of a baby) – לידה

Ta'arich leida – Date of birth – תאריך לידה

Yeluda – Birth rate – ילודה

Yaldon, yaldonet – Kiddo – ילדון, ילדונת

Playlist and Clips:

Arik Einstein – Yeladim shel Ha-chayim (lyrics)

Tslil Mechoovan – Yaldey hayare'ach (lyrics)

Shlomo Artzi – Nirkod Nishkach (lyrics)

Ha-keves ha-shisha-asar – Eich Shir Nolad (lyrics)

Sexta – Noladti La-shalom (lyrics)

Aris San – Rak Etmol Nolda (lyrics)

Mati Caspi – Yalduti Hashniya (lyrics)

Uzi Fuchs – Yaldonet (lyrics)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is TLV1.
0:10.5	Streetwise Hebrew.
0:12.7	Shalom.
0:13.9	It's me Guy from Streetwise Hebrew.
0:16.0	Today we talk about Yelid Yud Lamed Dalet.
0:19.5	I remind you a list of the new words and idioms I'm talking about
0:22.6	is on TLV1.fm slash streetwise Hebrew on today's episode. And if you use your iPad or smartphone, press
0:29.8	the logo of TLV1, our beloved radio station, and you'll see the new words. Yelad, kid, boy, is in Arabic, WALAD,
0:39.6	so you can see the Yud in Hebrew,
0:41.9	Wau, or Vav, in Arabic,
0:44.3	and many times Yud and Vav are used interchangeably
0:47.1	in Semitic languages.
0:49.7	Yeladim kthani,
0:52.4	Yeladim gdoling, Yeladim, granding, children of grand, young,
0:56.0	children,
0:58.0	and are all children of
1:00.0	you are all children of life, of their life, or shall haeim.
1:17.7	So, yelad is like, kelev, clavim, sefer, sparrim,
1:22.3	yelad, yelad.
1:24.1	These words have the stress on the first syllable,
1:27.3	Yelad.
1:28.2	So you should be already prepared to know that their plural is Eaim.
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