The story
- Yiddish · derived fromקאָרט“cord”
- English todayKort
* As a Dutch surname, from the adjective kort (“short”). * As a German surname, pet form of Konrad. * As a Jewish surname, via Polish from Yiddish קאָרט (kort, “cord”), ultimately from the root of English cord. * Also as an Ashkenazic Jewish surname, from Yiddish קאַרטל (kartl, “card”), itself borrowed from German Karte.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.