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Lit⋅vak

[lit-vahk]
–noun
a Jew from Lithuania or a neighboring country or region.

Origin:
1890–95; < Yiddish litvak < Pol litwak Lithuanian person (now obs. in this sense), deriv. of Litwa Lithuania
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Litvak 
"Jew from Lithuania," 1892, from Pol. Litwak "Lithuanian."
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