קיצור־ימים

Yiddish

Etymology

By surface analysis, קיצור (kitser) +‎ ימים (yomim), literally “abbreviation days”. Probably borrowed from Hebrew as a fixed phrase.

Noun

קיצור־ימים • (kitser-yomim) m

1. brevity (of the existence of something/someone), premature end

References

• Beinfeld, Solon, Bochner, Harry (2013) “קיצור־ימים”, in Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN