Where does “דרום־מערבֿ” come from?

דרום־מערבֿ (Yiddish) comes from Yiddish דרום, from Hebrew דָּרוֹם — south.

דרום־מערבֿ (Yiddish): southwest

Definitions

  1. southwest

Ancestry of “דרום־מערבֿ”, step by step

דרום־מערבֿ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Yiddish דרום

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddishדרוםsouth
2Hebrewדָּרוֹםsouth

via Yiddish מערבֿ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddishמערבֿwest
2Hebrewמַעֲרָבwest; occident, west
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