שאָטן
־ס
דער
'shadow'

ETYMOLOGY

[How did the popular form סאָטן with an initial /s/ arise? Mordkhe Schaechter's map shows that it was not at all restricted the territory of Sabesdiker loshn.}
ENHG schatten; from MHG schate; from OHG scato; from PGm. ✱skadu-; cf. Got. skadus; OE sceadu; English shadow, shade; from PIE ✱sḱh₃-tú-, from the root ✱sḱeh₃- 'dark'; cf. Greek σκότος 'darkness'.
{DW¹ 14: 2231; Kroonen 2013: 438}
The idiom וואַרפֿן אַ שאָטן אויף 'to cast a shadow on (i.e. a pall; doubt; a slur)' appears to be a calque of Polish rzucić / rzucać cień na kogoś/na coś.

WESTERN

Alsace (France)

šedə, šadə 'shade' {ALSACE, Zuckerman 1969, 42}

Oyberland (West Transcarpathian)

šatn {WTCP, Dunajská Streda, 47179}
- שאָטן

šoˑtn̩ {WTCP, Vác, 47197}

šoːt͡n̩ {WTCP, Berettyó-Újfalu, 47212}

CENTRAL

Unterland (East Transcarpathian)

šūətn 'Schatten' {ETCP, Beranek 1941}

šuətn̩ {ETCP, Sîg Felső Szek, 47223}

šuətn {ETCP, Mukachevo, 48226}

súːtn {ETCP, Nyzhnya Apsha, 48233}

dortn ɩz duˑ laˑxt = lɩxt n, duˑ šuˑtn דאָרטן איז דאָ ליכט און דאָ שאָטן {POLAND, Warsaw, 52211}

HASIDIC

AMERICA

šuːtn̩

NORTHEASTERN

Lithuania

šʲotn {LITHUANIA, Vilnius, 54257}

SOUTHEASTERN

šutn {ROMANIA, Brăila, 45273}