טויב
Yiddish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German toup, from Old High German toub.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
טויב • (toyb)
Declension edit
Declension of טויב
Derived terms edit
- טויבלעך (toyblekh)
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle High German tūbe, from Old High German tūba, from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā. Cognate with German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, West Frisian do, Saterland Frisian Dúve, English dove, Swedish duva, Danish due, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
טויב • (toyb) f, plural טויבן (toybn), diminutive טײַבל (taybl)
Further reading edit
- Map of dialectal variants for "pigeon/dove" and "deaf" from Litvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish by Dovid Katz