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Yiddish
Etymology
Most likely cognate with German Straße f. If so, inherited from Middle High German strāze, from Old High German strāza, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu, from Latin strata.
The unexpected masculine gender may be due to conflation with other masculine nouns also descending from a Middle High German form ending in -e, such as האָז m (hoz), from Middle High German hase.
Noun
שטראָז • (shtroz) m, plural שטראָזן (shtrozn)
- street, roadway
- Synonym: גאַס (gas)
- motorway, highway
- Synonyms: שאָסיי (shosey), אויטאָסטראַט (oytostrat)
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