ביטשטוטש
‘Buchach (town in Western Ukraine)’
ביטשטוטש
בעטשטאָטש
'Buchach (town in Western Ukraine)'
ETYMOLOGY
Beider suggests that the name was borrowed from Old Polish, before the 16th c., when the second vowel was still long /aː/. The vowel merged with A₂ and had the corresponding different realizations in Yiddish dialects.
Polish Buczacz; cf. Ukrainian Бучач.
BITShU'TSh [Yiddishland, Paul Glasser}