shtetl

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 shtĕt'(ə)l

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe.
    — However, you are right to suspect that there is some connection between my carefully considered opinion of the Hebrew people and this marvellous recital which your waxy ears, full of the cheesy gunk of the shtetl, have been so fortunate to hear.

词形变化

shtetls plural shtetlach plural shtetlech plural shtetlekh plural

词源

From Yiddish שטעטל (shtetl, “small town, village”), from שטאָט (shtot, “city”) + ־ל (-l, “diminutive suffix”) (compare German Städtl, Swabian Städtele), from Old High German stat, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. Doublet of stead.
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