pisher

From Yiddish פּישער (pisher, “pisser”), from פּישן (pishn, “to urinate”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪʃɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪʃə/

pisher (plural pishers)

1. (derogatory) Somebody who is inept at a task or new to a job.
2. (informal) A young child, usually male.

• hipers, perish, reship, seriph

Disputed. Perhaps from *pis + herit or heris. The former term would derive from Proto-Italic *kʷis and the latter term would derive from Proto-Italic *herjō, itself from *gʰr̥yéti, a verb derived from the root *gʰer-. However, the philologist Alan Nussbaum argues that Umbrian sound changes do not provide any justification for the necessary syncopation of the long ī-vowel. Alternatively, Nussbaum suggests that the second component actually derives from an athematic root present *gʰérti.

pisher (late Iguvine)

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. (per Poultney, Buck, and de Vaan) whoever
   2. (per Nussbaum) who is appropriate

• Buck, Carl Darling (1904), A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 101
• Poultney, James Wilson (1959), The Bronze Tables of Iguvium, Baltimore: American Philological Association, page 309
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “horior”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 289
• Alan J. Nussbaum (1976), “Umbrian pisher”, in Glotta‎^[1], volume 54, number 3/4, →ISSN, pages 241–253