גאָרן
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Yiddish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a dialectal form of Early New High German Gaden n or m (“chamber; floor, level, story”), which had the relevant meaning in the form Garn in some Bavarian and Rhenish Franconian dialects.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]גאָרן • (gorn) m, plural גאָרנס (gorns)
References
[edit]- ^ Weinreich, Max (2008) History of the Yiddish Language, volume 1, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page A500
- ^ “Garn²” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.