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).