פֿײַכט
‘moist’
פֿײַכט
'moist'
ETYMOLOGY
[Yiddish פֿײַכט continues MHG viuhte.]
OE fūht, OS fūht, Dutch vochtig, OHG fūht, fūhti, MHG viuhte, (Central German) vûhte, NHG feucht; from PGmc ✱funhtu- 'humid, moist' (or ✱fūhti- < ✱funhti-); from PIE (?) ✱pnk-tu- (or ✱pn̥k-to-); derived from the PIE root ✱pen- 'mud, swamp, water'; originally a u-stem, remodeled to a ja-stem in continental West Germanic (thus umlaut in NHG and Yiddish).
Related: Sanskrit páṅka- 'mud'.
WESTERN
Alsace (France)
s šdrɔu ɩš fajçd דאָס שטרוי איז פֿײַכט {ALSACE, 47075 Mulhouse, 056-050}
Oyberland (West Transcarpathian)
dər štrɔj ɩs fajxt דער שטרוי איז פֿײַכט {WTCP, Berettyó-Újfalu, 47212}
CENTRAL
Unterland (East Transcarpathian)
faːxt {ETCP, Nyzhnya Apsha, 48233}
SOUTHEASTERN
făxt {ROMANIA, Brăila, 45273}
AUDIO Itzik Manger [Czernowitz / Chernivtsi, BUKOVINA]
fajxt
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