קוואָל
'Kowal (town in central Poland)'

ETYMOLOGY

Beider suggests that the name was borrowed from Old Polish, before the 16th c., when the second vowel of Kowal was still long /aː/. The vowel merged with A₂ and had the corresponding different realizations in Yiddish dialects (e.g., "Kvūl" in CY).

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