קלייט
־ן
די
'store, shop'

ETYMOLOGY

Beider suggests the word may have been borrowed from the dialect of Polesia, where the root vowel was the diphthong [ie] - borrowed into Yiddish as [ej]. Or perhaps the word is much older and is from the East Cnaanic substrate - from the Slavic language originally spoken by Jews in the Grand Dutch of Lithuania before they shifted to Yiddish (by the 17th c.).
Polish (obsolete) kleta, kletka 'store'; Ukrainian клiть 'cage; shop'.

Characteristic especially for SOUTHEASTERN. קלייט was probably previously more widespread in other dialects, but was supplanted by געוועלב in CENTRAL and קראָם in NORTHEASTERN.

WESTERN

Oyberland (West Transcarpathian)

kleːt {WTCP, Bratislava, 48171A}

SOUTHEASTERN

kle˰ːt {ROMANIA, Brăila, 45273}