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קראָשניק
‘Kraśnik (town in southeastern Poland)’

קראָשניק
קרושניק
'Kraśnik (town in southeastern Poland)'

ETYMOLOGY

Beider suggests that the name was borrowed from Old Polish, before the 16th c., when the vowel of Kraśnik was long /aː/ (perhaps the vowel was lengthened in a stressed syllable before two consonants of which the first is a sibilant). The vowel merged with A₂ and had the corresponding different realizations in Yiddish dialects (e.g., "Krūshnik" in CY).

KRU:ShNIK [Yiddishland, Paul Glasser]