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单词 shtetl
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shtetln.

Brit. /ˈʃtɛtl/, /ˈʃteɪtl/, U.S. /ˈʃtɛd(ə)l/, /ˈʃteɪd(ə)l/
Inflections: Plural shtetlach, shtetls.
Forms: 1900s– shtetel, 1900s– shtetl, 1900s– shtetlach (plural), 1900s– shtetlakh (plural), 1900s– shtetlech (plural), 1900s– shtetlekh (plural), 1900s– stetl.
Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish shtetl.
Etymology: < Yiddish shtetl, literally ‘small town’ < Middle High German stetelīn , stetlīn small town (German Städtlein , also regional (Southern: early 19th cent. or earlier) Städtel ) < stat town (see stead n.) + -elīn, suffix forming diminutives.In plural forms in -ch, -kh after the Yiddish plural form. Compare the following slightly earlier example of the transliterated Yiddish word in an English context in the title of a musical comedy:1946 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. 28 Sept. 5/2 Two well-known Jewish musical comedy stars..will play..at the Carnegie Music Hall in the Yiddish show, ‘A Simche In Shtetl’.
historical.
A small, rural Jewish town or village in Eastern Europe. Now also in extended use.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > village in countries other than England
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1963 M. Samuel Little did I Know ix. 137 The Shtetlach! Those forlorn little settlements in a vast and hostile wilderness, isolated alike from Jewish and non-Jewish centers of civilization.
1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Nov. 1314/2 Hitler swept away the shtetls of Eastern Europe.
1989 M. Piesman Unorthodox Practices iv. 30 She would have been plucking chickens in the shtetl with a schmatta on her head.
2004 D. Smiedt Are we there Yet? (2007) vii. 147 It was much like any other rural South African shtetl.
2013 N. Solomons Gallery Vanished Husbands 23 Juliet..understood how they had once folded into the shtetls, sleeping ten to a room.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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