Talk:אויף

@Wikitiki89: Are you sure that anybody says [ɔjf]? I was told that it's incorrect. Incidentally, I have yet to create an entry for אויפֿ־ (oyf-), but that one is apparently usually colloquially pronounced as [uf]. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 02:33, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Short answer: Yes. Slightly longer answer: Even if traditionally it never was in any dialect, speakers of Standard Yiddish (or at least some of them) do pronounce it that way. Even longer answer regarding dialects: First of all, what is the theoretically expected form in various dialects? Litvish: [ɔɪ̯f ~ uɪ̯f ~ u(w)f], Ukraynish: [oʊ̯f ~ ɔɪ̯f ~ uf], Poylish: [oːf ~ oʊ̯f] (see this chart and this map of the same vowel in dove in Litvish). Second of all, we have to separate the unstressed preposition from the stressed adverb (which is really what a separable "prefix" is). Now I'm not sure exactly how אויף was pronounced in each dialect, but I think that in Litvish it tended to be [af] (unstressed preposition) and [uf] (stressed adverb) and in Poylish it tended to be [ɔf] (unstressed preposition) and [oːf ~ oʊ̯f] (stressed adverb). So for lack of better information, I'm unwilling give a dialectal breakdown in the main namespace. --WikiTiki89 16:41, 22 January 2016 (UTC)