The story
- Hebrew · derived fromבַּעַל קוֹרֵא
- Yiddish · borrowed fromבעל קורא
- English todaybaal korei
Borrowed from Yiddish בעל קורא (bal koyre), from Hebrew בַּעַל קוֹרֵא (bá'al koré), an alternative of בַּעַל קְרִיאָה (bá'al k'ri'á, literally “master of reading”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.