The story
- Hebrew · derived fromפׇּרִיץ“bandit”
- Yiddish · borrowed fromפּריץ“landowner”
- English todayporitz
Borrowed from Yiddish פּריץ (porets, “landowner”), from Hebrew פׇּרִיץ (pārīṣ, “bandit”). Compare Polish puryc.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.