The Yiddish word Oibeshter means ‘highest one’. Oiben means high up, on top or upstairs. So oibeshter means highest, like oibeshter shtok means top floor of a building. In the Lithuanian or Russian accent, oi becomes ai. So they say it Aibeshter, which is the accent in which that term of referring to Hashem spread around.
Later, the chassidim adopted this expression and mistakenly say Uybishter, as if the original was with a ‘tzere’, instead of Oibeshter. (I suppose Americans should say Oh-bishter to be technically correct.)
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