גאָרן
Yiddish
editEtymology
editFrom a dialectal form of Early New High German Gaden n or m (“chamber; floor, level, story”), which had the relevant meaning in the form Garn in some Bavarian and Rhenish Franconian dialects.[1][2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editגאָרן • (gorn) m, plural גאָרנס (gorns)
References
edit- ^ Weinreich, Max (2008) History of the Yiddish Language, volume 1, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page A500
- ^ “Garn²” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.