באָרוועס
באָרוועסיק
'barefoot'

ETYMOLOGY

{Why is MHG short /a/ in a closed syllable shifted to /o/ in Eastern Yiddish? Perhaps the vowel was lengthened early on before the following /r/. No sign of /o/ in MHG or ENHG.
The vowel is /o/ in much of Central where we would expect /u/. Why? Perhaps influenced by the vowel of Polish boso 'barefoot'.
The /v/ in באָרוועס seems to reflect the in MHG barvuoz, lost in ENHG. Similarly וועלוול, שטיוול, אויוון}
ON berr, OE bær, English bare, barfoot, OS bar, Dutch barre-voets 'barefoot', OHG bar 'naked, bare; pure; public', barafuozi, MHG bar, barvuoz, ENHG bar, barfus, barfüssig, NHG bar, barfuß PGmc ✱baza- 'naked, visible'; from PIE ✱bʰos-ó- 'bare, barefoot' < ✱bʰes- 'to chew, rub, sweep'; cf. Lithuanian bãsas, 'barefoot', Latvian bass, Old Church Slavonic босъ , Russian босо́й, Old Armenian bok 'barefoot'

A3

WESTERN

barwəs {Schnitzler, Prager Judendeutsch, 25}

איז כמה וכמה פעמים מיט דען בחור אין דיא גרישטי קרירותֿ נאקדיק אונ' ברוויס אין ווילדן וואלד אניין
'(the spirit went) several times with the young man in the greatest frosts naked into the wild forest'

Pitsche patsche die Gäns gehn barfüßig.

Holland (Netherlands)

barvəs {HOLLAND, Harderwijk 52055, Beem}

Alsace (France)

baˑʁ-fysɩg באַרפֿוסיג {ALSACE, 47075 Mulhouse, 031-060}

Oyberland (West Transcarpathian)

boˑrfyᶦsɩk, baːᴿfiːsəg {WTCP, Dunajská Streda, 47179}

báˑrfyˑse/ɩg, báˑrfyˑsəg {WTCP, Vác, 47197}

boˑrfiˑsəg {WTCP, Berettyó-Újfalu, 47212}

blɔ́jsfisɩg בלויזפֿיסיק (German bloßfüßig) {WTCP, Bratislava, 48171A}

CENTRAL

Unterland (East Transcarpathian)

būərfəs, -fisik 'barfuß' {ETCP, Beranek 1941}

bárfəsik {ETCP, Teiuș, U. Weinreich 1964: 259}

bárfəsɩkʲ {ETCP, Teiuș, 46233}

baːrfisikʲ {ETCP, Sîg Felső Szek, 47223}

bárfiˑsɩkʲ {ETCP, near Sighet, 47228}

búˑrfɩkʲ {ETCP, Bistriţa, 47241}

buˑrvəs {ETCP, Mukachevo, 48226}
- bárfɪsɩkʲ {זי {i.e., informant's wife}}

buˑrfɩsɩkʲ {ETCP, Nyzhnya Apsha, 48233}

baʀvəs {POLAND, Wolbrom, 50196}

bɔrvɛs {Warsaw, Geller 2001: 175}
borvɩs {POLAND, Warsaw, 52211}

HASIDIC

AMERICA

ˈburfɩsɪk

NORTHEASTERN

Lithuania

borvəs, (more crudely) borbes {LITHUANIA, Vilnius, 54257}

SOUTHEASTERN

bur̩vəs {ROMANIA, Brăila, 45273}