פּלוצלינג
Yiddish
FWOTD – 21 December 2019
Alternative forms
- פּלוצלונג (plutslung) – Litvish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɫʊt͡s.ʎɪŋɡ/
Adverb
פּלוצלינג • (plutsling)
- suddenly (happening quickly and with little or no warning)
- The Yiddish Forward, 22 July 2015
- איין שוואַרצע ייִדישע מאַמע האָט מיר דערציילט, אַז ווען זי האָט איין מאָל געבראַכט איר קינד צו אַן אונטערנעמונג פֿאַר ייִדישע קינדער, האָט זי פּלוצלינג דערהערט די פֿראַגע: „פֿאַר וואָס איז די גויע דאָ?‟
- eyn shvartse yidishe mame hot mir dertseylt, az ven zi hot eyn mol gebrakht ir kind tsu an unternemung far yidishe kinder, hot zi plutsling derhert di frage: „far vos iz di goye do?‟
- One black Jewish mother told me that when she once brought her kid to an event for Jewish children, she suddenly heard the question, “Why is the goy here?”
- The Yiddish Forward, 22 July 2015
Further reading
- Map of dialectal variants for "suddenly" from Litvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish by Dovid Katz
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