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פֿויסט
‘fist’

פֿויסט
־ן
די
'fist'

ETYMOLOGY

{Yiddish is from MHG vūst.}
OE fȳst, English fist, OS fūst, Dutch vuist, OHG fūst, MHG vûst, voust, NHG Faust; from PGmc ✱funhsti- 'fist' (or ✱fūsti-, or ✱funxwstiz); from PIE pnkʷ-ti-; probably derived from PIE ✱pénkʷe 'five' (see פֿינף).
Related: Old Church Slavonic pęstĭ 'fist', Lithuanian kum̃štis 'fist'

WESTERN

Alsace (France)

di fɔ̞ušd {ALSACE, 47075 Mulhouse, 027-030}

Oyberland (West Transcarpathian)

fa˰ust {WTCP, Dunajská Streda, 47179}

fa˰ust {WTCP, Vác, 47197}

də fɔust {WTCP, Berettyó-Újfalu, 47212}

CENTRAL

Unterland (East Transcarpathian)

foust {ETCP, Sîg Felső Szek, 47223}

dɩ fɔust {ETCP, Mukachevo, 48226}
- foust {זי [i.e., informant's wife]}

foust {ETCP, Nyzhnya Apsha, 48233}

fojst {POLAND, Wolbrom, 50196}

foˑst {POLAND, Warsaw, 52211}

HASIDIC

AMERICA

arbətn̩ mɩtn fɔwst אַרבעטן מיטן פֿויסט

NORTHEASTERN

און ווען עמעצער האָט געמאָנט שטאַרק, האָט ער "געמאָנט מיט [...] מיט אַ שטילן רמז אויף אַ פֿויסט"