Etymology

kloyz

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Today it means: a small private synagogue or circle of religious learning Full definition →

Yiddish קלויז ← Middle High German klūse ← Old High German klūsa
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromclūsa“something closed”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*klūsā
  3. Old High German · derived fromklūsa
  4. Middle High German · derived fromklūse“hermitage”, by extension “snug, narrow dwelling”
  5. Yiddish · borrowed fromקלויז
  6. English todaykloyz

From Yiddish קלויז (kloyz), from Middle High German klūse (“hermitage”, by extension “snug, narrow dwelling”), from Old High German klūsa, from Proto-West Germanic *klūsā, from Latin clūsa (“something closed”). Cognate with German Klause, Dutch kluis, Old English clūse.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.