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Yiddish
Etymology
From Middle High German tunkel, from Old High German tunkal, tuncal (“dark”), from Proto-West Germanic *dunkal, from Proto-Germanic *dunkalaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʷ- (“to smoke, fume”). Compare to German dunkel.
Pronunciation
Adjective
טונקל • (tunkl) (comparative טונקלער (tunkler), superlative טונקלסט (tunklst))
- dark