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Yiddish
Etymology
From Middle High German stat, from Old High German stat, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis.
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Noun
שטאָט • (shtot) f, plural שטעט (shtet), diminutive שטעטל (shtetl) or שטעטעלע (shtetele)
- city, (large) town
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