קיצור־ימים

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Yiddish

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, קיצור (kitser) +‎ ימים (yomim), literally “abbreviation days”. Probably borrowed from Hebrew as a fixed phrase.

Noun

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קיצור־ימים • (kitser-yomim) m

  1. brevity (of the existence of something/someone), premature end

References

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  • Beinfeld, Solon, Bochner, Harry (2013) “קיצור־ימים”, in Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN
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