שטונד

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)

1. (Middle Yiddish) hour
2. (Daytshmerish) hour

   Synonym: שעה (sho)

Derived terms

• שטונדנלאַנג (shtundnlang, “hours long”)

See also

• שטונדע (shtunde)

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