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Yiddish
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German stunt, stunde, from Old High German stunta, from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”). Appears twice in Levita's dictionary of 1542. Compare Alemannic German Schtund, German Stunde (“hour”), (archaic or poetic) Stund, Icelandic stund (“hour; a while”), Danish stund (“a while”). Doublet of שטונדע (shtunde, “hour; private lesson”)
Noun
שטונד • (shtund) f, plural שטונדן (shtundn)
- (Middle Yiddish) hour
- (Daytshmerish) hour
- Synonym: שעה (sho)
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References
- Elia Levita (1542) Šěmôt děvārîm bilšôn ʿivrî u-bilšôn romiyyî gam aškenāzî [The Names of Things in Hebrew and Latin as well as German], Isny: Impressum Isnae [Paul Fagius], →DOI, Zentralbibliothek Zürich: Rv 209,3