קורצשלאָס

Yiddish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kurzschluss, with שלוס (shlus) modified to the semantically unrelated שלאָס (shlos) by analogy of the O-U alternation as found in e.g. דאָרשט (dorsht) and German Durst.

Noun

קורצשלאָס • (kurtsshlos) m, plural קורצשלאָסן (kurtsshlosn)

  1. short circuit (an unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit)
    • 2018, חנה־פֿײַגל טערטלטויב, “מײַן זון וויל לאַטקעס, ווי קען איך אים אָפּזאָגן? [My Son Wants Latkes So How Can I Say No?]”, in Forverts‎:
      בײַם אַרויסגיין האָט ער געזאָגט, אַז ס׳איז דאָ אַ קורצשלאָס אין די דראָטן פֿון דער פּליטע און מע קען דאָס נישט פֿאַרריכטן.
      baym aroysgeyn hot er gezogt, az s'iz do a kurtsshlos in di drotn fun der plite un me ken dos nisht farrikhtn.
      When leaving, he said that there is a short circuit in the wires of the plate and it cannot be fixed.

References

Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl; Glasser, Paul (2016), “קורצשלאָס”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

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