לייענען

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Yiddish

Etymology

An expansion of earlier *לייען (*leyen) (still attested in Alsace as /ˈlaːjə/ and /(ɡə)laːɪ̯t/) + ־ען (-en), from Romance, perhaps from Old French leyer, lire, ultimately from Latin legō (read). Arguments for an Italian origin in Campanian or Calabrian Italian lejere or Sicilian Italian lejiri have also been made, citing redundant remorphologisation of ען- (Aslanov, 2013; Weinrich, 1980).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɫɛɪ̯ənən/, /ˈɫaɪ̯ənən/

Verb

לייענען (leyenen) (past participle געלייענט (geleyent))

  1. to read
    Synonym: (Daytshmerish) לעזן (lezn)

Usage notes

  • The realization leynen in the infinitive and geleynt in the past participle is very rare in Western Yiddish areas, while it is common all across Poylish and Ukraynish areas.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Dutch: lajenen
  • English: leyn
  • Hungarian: lejnol

References

  • Aslanov, C. (2013). The Romance Component in Yiddish: A Reassessment in Journal of Jewish Languages 1(2), 261-273. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134638-12340014.
  • Niemeyer (2010). The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry: The Eastern Yiddish - Western Yiddish Continuum, Volume III, p. 132-133
  • Rohlfs, G. (1949). Historische Grammatik der italienischen Sprache: und ihrer Mundarten.
  • Weinreich, M. (1980). History of the Yiddish language. New-Haven: London. Yale University Press.