טראַכט
‘womb’
טראַכט
'womb'
ETYMOLOGY
[Interesting that Yiddish preserves only one of several meanings of NHG Tracht (e.g., 'costume').]
ON dráttr 'pull; hesitation', ME draht, English draught, Dutch dracht 'carrying; dress', OHG traht(a), MHG tracht(e) 'id.', NHG Tracht 'id.'; from PGmc ✱drahtu- 'pull'; a tu-stem created to ✱dragan- (see טראָגן), remodeled as a ti-stem in West Germanic.
WESTERN
trecht {Schnitzler, Prager Judendeutsch, 19}