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by hormeze 1723 days ago
hello! im the author- the word is actually in the talmud itself,in the story of choni hamagel. spelled with an aleph and yud, so yes the pronunciation is 'ay' given that it is aramaic the A sound is the dufault, iirc (been a long time since i was in yeshivah)

in yiddish, ay and oy are used for different things, tho it occurs to me i cant quite articulate the difference. i believe ay is older.