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לויוויטש
‘Łowicz (town in central Poland)’

לויוויטש
'Łowicz (town in central Poland)'

ETYMOLOGY

The diphthong /oj/ must result from a long /oː/. The name Łowicz was borrowed very early so that the /o/ in an open syllable was lengthened — either within Old Yiddish itself or in the German from which Yiddish borrowed the name. (Beider denies the first possibility.)

LOyVITSh {Yiddishland, Paul Glasser}

איך האָב דיך אין לויוויטש 'I don't care about you'

CENTRAL

xo dəx ɩn ɫojvɩč כ'האָב דיך אין לויוויטש {POLAND, Wolbrom, 50196}

lojvɩč {POLAND, Warsaw, 52211}