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דזשאַד
‘old beggar’

דזשאַד
'old beggar'

ETYMOLOGY

Beider suggests that the word was borrowed from Old Polish, before the 16th c., when the vowel of dziad was still long /aː/. The vowel merged with A₂ and had the corresponding different realizations in Yiddish dialects (e.g., "dzhūd" in CY).