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Yiddish
Etymology
From Portuguese Madeira, from madeira (“wood”). Compare German Madeira. A very distant doublet of מוטער (muter).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
מאַדיירע • (madeyre) f
- Madeira (island and autonomous region of Portugal)
Noun
מאַדיירע • (madeyre) f
- madeira (wine)
- Synonym: מאַדיירע־ווײַן (madeyre-vayn)
Coordinate terms
References
- Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “Madeira wine”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN