| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| shtetl |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  sht t l, sht tl |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. shtetls or shtet·lach (-lä )
A small Jewish town or village formerly found throughout Eastern Europe. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Yiddish, from Middle High German stetel, diminutive of stat, town, from Old High German, place. See st- in Appendix I.
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