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קאָרטשעוו
‘Karczew (town in central Poland)’

קאָרטשעוו
קורטשעוו?
'Karczew (town in central Poland)'

ETYMOLOGY

Beider suggests that the name was borrowed from Old Polish, before the 16th c., when the first vowel of Karczew was long /aː/ (perhaps the vowel was lengthened in a stressed syllable before /r/ and a second consonant). The vowel merged with A₂ and had the corresponding different realizations in Yiddish dialects (e.g., "Kūrtshev" in CY).

KU:(R)TShEV [Yiddishland, Paul Glasser]