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גרײַדינג
‘Horodok (city in western Ukraine)’

גרײַדינג
'Horodok (city in western Ukraine)'

ETYMOLOGY

Beider argues that Yiddish borrowed the name not from Polish Gródek, but from German Grödik, in which the vowel had already been lengthened in an open syllable (so properly protovowel E₂ in Y).
ENHG Grödik; from Polish Gródek.

GRAyDING [Yiddishland, Paul Glasser]