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ווײַסליץ
‘Wiślica (town in south-central Poland)’

ווײַסליץ
'Wiślica (town in south-central Poland)'

ETYMOLOGY

Beider suggests that Y borrowed the word not from Polish directly, but from the Silesian dialect of German colonists in Poland - in whose dialect the initial /i/, borrowed as MHG î, was diphthongized to NHG ei /aj/. This corresponds to protovowel I₄ in CY Vāslits.
Polish Wiślica.