פּאַפּשוי
Appearance
Yiddish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Most likely borrowed from Romanian păpușoi (“(Moldavia) maize, corn”), possibly via an intermediate dialectal Russian папшо́й (papšój).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]פּאַפּשוי • (papshoy) m, plural פּאַפּשויעס (papshoyes)
Derived terms
[edit]- פּאַפּשוי־שנייעלעך (papshoy-shneyelekh)
- פּאַפּשויברויט (papshoybroyt)
- פּאַפּשויעלעך (papshoyelekh)
- פּאַפּשוימעל (papshoymel)
References
[edit]- Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “corn”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN