His Hebrew name might be on the gravestone which would clear up any questions. Now it no longer works at all! My grandfather’s name appears on Ellis Island’s passenger record listing as “Thamen”; Ancestry.com lists the name as “Thamer” from the same record. 1; 2; 3; NEXT ; NAMES MEANING GENDER; Aber: Yiddish form of Abraham which means Father of a might nation. Feivish — Feivish means “shinning” or “light.” My great-grandfather was a Polish Jew born in Warsaw. (I figured out that Nosel is the same as Notel, which does appear.). Yechiel -> Hill makes some sense, Eliezer -> Louis also makes some sense if you know about the Leiser intermediate form. Shown below is a not-so-serious list of additional useful equivalents: aBRIEvate = To slice cheese at Zabar's. Hello Yiddish is such a beautiful language, replete with compliments, terms of endearment, and gentle wisdom. To use an example from the book, if a tax list showed that Moshe paid his taxes, but his name in another register was listed as Mojshe, then he could be taxed again. 18) in the first bibliography, and section 17 (pg. I can’t say for sure, but that’s my gut feeling. Yiddish or Hebrew ? My name is Abigail Katz by the way. In English the more common pairing to use for spelling is actually ch, such as in Chanukah, although for the same reason Chanukah is frequently spelled Hanukah instead (because in English we reserve the ch pairing for a totally different sound, such as in the word ‘chair’) I use the pairing kh which is distinct from h, but cannot be confused with the sound we normally use for ch. 227 p. This is a quick reference guide, originally compiled by the United States Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, document M-131, Rev. Meanings and Origins of Male Yiddish Names. (New York: Jonathan David, 1989). I’ve made a few minor changes in formatting. Check out the new Q&A page. Sample portions of the book * Table of Contents * The dictionary entry for the feminine given name Yentl * List of the 15,000 given names in … I can expand your specify example in my own family. Showing names from "Faigel" to "Hendel". “Jewish Given Names”, first given at the Paul 128pgs, Feldblyum, Boris. Any thoughts? These slides accompany the presentation on Is any of this on your family tree? Some English-language names derive directly from the Irish — Kathleen = Caitlín, Owen = Eoghan. However, that misses the point that sometimes we are staring at a name and have no idea what name it is actually. Names are from the following vital records of Kremenets: Births: 1870 & 1871, 1893-1895 Deaths: 1870 through 1872 For the most part, we have used “phonetic transcription” to indicate how the Hebrew/Yiddish given names used in the Kremenets area would sound in English. A hypocorism is an affectionate nickname, usually given to children, but sometimes lasting much longer. “Wasche” was 17 when she came with her parents and siblings to Philadelphia, so it was likely she had married before the next census in 1900, but until the hint from Ancestry appeared I had no idea what her married name (including first name!) But even though ‘Salem’ is short for “Jerusalem” the uncommon nature of the name made it a very unlikely choice. BOSMAT בָּשְׂמַת f Hebrew Hebrew variant of BASEMATH. SAH. Her index of English names and the Yiddish equivalents is useful. {A revision of the author's earlier works These are the Names (1948), The Name Dictionary (1967), and The Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew First Names (1984). Not all Polish-Americans used a translation of their name. Looking for the perfect name for your little one? I thought Frieda is a yiddish name. ItalianTranslator. Example: enter john and select German to get the German spellings of John My goal was to make them readable, not consistent. In the UK we were Catherine Mark and Judah. They also contain the OTHER names which cannot be written in a Get (e.g., diminutives, and names of endearment). There are Yiddish names, many of them based on Hebrew, Biblical or Rabbinic names. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window). I was hoping I’d found my great great uncle’s death certificate but the name was listed as Jankiel and it threw me off; all I had known was his Spanish name, Jacobo, after he moved to Colombia from Poland. 152pgs, Cohn, Rella Israly. Some of the subtleties of the different Yiddish equivalents listed have been indicated. Samuel We have first hand experience now of the name changing across borders having come from the UK to Israel. Technically, Beth is short for Elizabeth so the Hebrew would be Elisheva, but for Beth as a freestanding name, see above. Another example is the Hungarian women’s name Aranka. Thank you so much! Thanks again! Some records provide many alternate names, some don’t. Ethel (With special thanks to Marie Roth - Pointer #766 who compiled the original lists.) "; ALTER (אַלְתֵּר): Jewish name meaning "old; elder" in Yiddish … It’s a form of the name Aurelia. Post Apr 07, 2019 #2 2019-04-07T15:32. Mollie would be my Great Grandma. It appears to have been last updated in 2003. Is it possible that it was Shomer or Shamai or was it possibly something else?Marilyn. Volume XIV, Number 3 (Fall 1998), pages 9-15; as well as in the Miriam Lewin-Susskind ([email protected]). Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy (Avotaynu, 2004), pages 35-42. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2008. I’m almost positive this was one of the siblings, coming in separately, as all of the information is right. I never call myself that but the records are not going to know that in the future and where only my hebrew version is recorded no one will ever know what my name really was. Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary. It is woefully incomplete – at least half a dozen names from my gg-grandfather to my grandfather’s generation do not appear in the GNDB; Yochanon and Nosel are just two examples. Thanks for your post! For the most part my table is true to the original from the book. What are common Hebrew or Yiddish names for the English name Louis? Page 1 of 1. Compare that to rakh-mee-el. girl Girls boy Boys ; You can add names without registering. First Names of the Polish Commonwealth: Origins & Meanings. The records that you see are as varied as the people who filled out the information that makes up the database. Susan Susan. For Rose-Rachel the daughter of Gedaliah, Any help would be greatly appreciated 18th Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Los Angeles, July 1998, For genealogical purposes, we're interested in determining B, the original Yiddish name. I’ve seen this twice in my family tree, including my grandfather Shmuel /Simon z”l. When I have looked at the manifest it looked like “Shamer”. This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish language (as Gaeilge) given names and Anglicized or Latinized forms, with English equivalents. Check it out! But I only know his name as Michael, which isn’t particularly Yiddish. Yiddish Equivalents for English Names - there are NO Yiddish equivalents. AARON אַהֲרֹן m English, French, German, Jewish, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek From the Hebrew name אַהֲרֹן ('Aharon), which is most likely of unknown Egyptian origin.Other theories claim a Hebrew derivation, and suggest meanings such as "high mountain" or "exalted".In the Old Testament this name is borne by the older brother of Moses. Are you familiar with these names at all? 2 In the case of Yiddish and Polish names, there are many other possibly variations for many of the names listed. Also, while we are pretty strict with spelling these days, it was not a sacrosanct a hundred years ago. ($25). Some Yiddish names sound very old-fashioned, while others are making a comeback. If you give me some more details I’m happy to look at the records myself and try to help. Where we’re her parents in 1900? But what we know from the tombstone is only A and C. Can you infer B from A? Helen Pronunciation : case sensitive: see the pronunciation key for a guide on how to write the sounds; sounds can only be searched in names that have been assigned pronunciations * is a wildcard that will match zero or more letters in the pronunciation example: *lee matches names which end with the sound lee _ is a wildcard that will match exactly one letter in the pronunciation Hoffman and Helon’s book on Polish names is a great book and a bargain. Since then, it has gone through stages of Middle English and Early Modern English and gradually has become the first global lingua franca, international language of communications, science, information technology, business, aviation, and others. For web sites, one place to look is the Given Name Data Bases (GNDBs) at JewishGen. In the USSR, the substitution of Russian names for Yiddish ones started during the 1920s and lasted about two decades. Cohn offers an index of Hebrew names as well, but oddly transliterates those too. A simple translation to the Yiddish. Ex. Jankiel is a hypocorism (to use the technical term) of the name Jacob. Thanks for your help! This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. My favorite street in Jerusalem is Abraham Lincoln St., where in Hebrew they pronounce the silent l, and get something like Avraham Linko-lin. She isn’t listed with her parents and siblings in the 1900 census, and I don’t have information about who she may have married or whether she died before the census, so I’m stuck trying to figure out whether she might appear in later records under a more Americanized name, but I have no clue where “Wasche” comes from. Please. For one thing, if a name appears in the records starting with a capital I that is pronounced Y, you generally won’t find it in the GNDB unless you look it up under Y. They are all set for a comeback and have already set their foot in the US. 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