פּלייצע
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די
'shoulder; back'

ETYMOLOGY

Beider suggests the word is either from Old Czech plecě or Polish plecy. The diphthong /ej/ may have resulted from "anticipatory softening" before the palatal consonant in Old Czech, or else from the palatalized character of the /l/ in Polish at the time ([je] > [ej]). Or else perhaps the original /e/, borrowed in the Old Yiddish period, was lengthened in an open syllable.
{Beider 2015: 430, 448}
Polish plecy 'back; shoulder (until the 19th c.)' .

WESTERN

Oyberland (West Transcarpathian)

plajcəs {WTCP, Berettyó-Újfalu, 47212}

CENTRAL

[pɬajtsᵻs] {Warsaw, Geller 2001: 76}

Unterland (East Transcarpathian)

plajcəs {ETCP, Sîg Felső Szek, 47223}

plajcə {ETCP, near Sighet, 47228}

dɩ plajcə {ETCP, Mukachevo, 48226}

dɩ pɫajcə, plajcə {מיטן, נידעריק} {ETCP, Nyzhnya Apsha, 48233}

a puˑ pɫajcəs אַ פּאָר פּלייצעס {POLAND, Wolbrom, 50196}

plajcɩ (mid back) {POLAND, Warsaw, 52211}

HASIDIC

AMERICA

ˈplajcə

NORTHEASTERN

און ווען עמעצער האָט געמאָנט שטאַרק, האָט ער "געמאָנט מיט אַ פּלייצע"

Lithuania

afɱ plejce {LITHUANIA, Vilnius, 54257}