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פּויזן
‘Poznań (city in western Poland)’

פּויזן
'Poznań (city in western Poland)'

ETYMOLOGY

Beider argues that Yiddish borrowed the name not from Polish Poznań, but from German, in which the vowel had already been lengthened in an open syllable (so properly protovowel O₂ in Y).
NHG Posen; ENHG Posenaw.