Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-10-30


of the namos-sucA as IoG0ug'oG, Clif-
ford. GDOuru, IurFs, Grs.ala, lIIlord,
l.aHi.lou, Ilar,iugc Hardy Herbert,
it"euI, LUu'gT Ma0yIlla lIar-den,
.-gu, Nmug1, Morley. Morton,
Em .. Na"mr Russell, SNiuos. Wal
tui .Is--ar accounted i.r uH this
lu.t.
I0npu sa#Hme- ana r..r. uatnes
preserved u.s. 'as J,@- of Eaglald form
a sua, .Htomn e the history of the
l-raeilil-u ai-Irg-ion. Side br zia with
rm Hebrew AiiahamS, The Egyptian
Nose, aud the English Norlaunt. we
huy" the Gr9oi Alexander and Margolies,
the LItIn Marcus. and the Arabic Nlocatta.
Those derived from medi5ynl house
signs are Rorh~child, Adler, CAM, Schuf
Strauss, SllberLron. etc. Some of the
occupation names are interesting Rophe
is Hebrew for physician, and Rappoport
is corruption Of RoIhe d'Oporto; Jalfon
is Hebrew for money changer, and
Mocatta is Arabic for mason.
More strictly Anglo-Jewish are the
natural assimilations Of Hebrew and
Jewish names to English forms Thus,
Coleman is corruption Of Kalman,
which is an abbreviation Of Kalonymos,
the Greek translation Cf tile Hebrew
Shem Tob Good Namel. Bonny is de-
rived, through Bondi, rom Latin
translation of Yom Ton Good Day..
Phillips comes from the Hebrew Uri or
Meier, both meaning ''lght," through
tho lt@ag,l- r.y,.,s.-a in,,F Dl - A..
German-Polish diminutive Fheibul. Sa-
vile is more natural corruption Of
Samuel than is generally imagined. see
ing that In Germany the Scriptural name
has been shortened into Sanyel, and in
England we have the authority Of Nj.
Weller, senior. 10 spell il with "we.n
Freeman is from the German Friedman,
. translation and apocopation Of Shalom
ben MeDachem. Haymen is derived
through Hyman and Hyan from the He
brew Hahn llife) Jessel is from Eches-
kel, the Hebrew pronunciation Of Eze-
kicl Yates l. from GoetZ, an abbrevia-
tion Of Goilschalk. which in Low Ger
man means Gods servant. and is a
literal translation Of Eljakin. Among
simpler changes are Cuwun-Cohen,
Lewiu-Lcgi. Nict1r-Aviydor, Archer
Asker, Jessop-Joseph, and Soman
and ;ilowman-SolGmou, Curious in
stances OF misdireclel tran -.auyus are az
f0rded by the names MarCLait and Chap
man, both Of which are AHglc.aations
of the German Kauhnann on Handels-
mann. Originally. however, neither Of
these names meant merchant among
l,Hn Iyui5uic Jews. Kaufman is a cor
ruViiuu oi Koppelman. Of which the first
two syilales are q German diminutive
ot jacob aud the third an abbreviatiOn Of
McnaChgm. the whole being contrac-
tion OF Jacob ben Menachem. Handels-
mann has similar history, being
derived from Elchanon ben Menachem,
through Handl. q recognized German
diminutiye of Elchanon. In the same
way Scligman is contraction of Selig
ben Menachem, and Felberman a COR
rupted contraction Of Ph9bus (UrD ben
Menachcm.
One If the most curious instances of
an erroneous ctymology il the name
Jaffe, which figures among the landed
gentry Of county Down. II is the He
brew word for beautiful. and is a
direct translation Of the German 'Schon."
As Jewish surname. however. Schon or
Schen has no meaning. IL is simply an
acrostic Of the Hebrew Schliach Neemon
faithful messenger). These acrostic
names are peculiarly Jewish, and many
If them are found among English Jews.
For example. Katz. which one OF these
days Will perhaps be Auglicized INTO Cat,
is derived from the initials OF kohtsh
Tzedek priest Of righteousness; Schatz,
which in Hungary has actually been
translated into KincZ, the Magyar for
treasure" is from Schliach Tzibur
messenger of the congregation): Ballad
Is from Ben Alb Beth Din (Son Of the
President Of the House of Judgmeno;
Sack Is from Sera kadosh (holy poster
ity), and when the name of town be-
ginning with is addded-as, for exam
pie, Sera Kadosh Speyer (holy posterity
Of Speyer)-it becomes Saks or Sachs,
which has been frequently mistaken for
an abbreviation Of SaclIsen (Slxony);
Braun Is from Ben Rabbi Moses; Bran
corrupted into Braun. and translated
into Brown from Ben Rabbi Nachman;
Bard. from Ben Rabbi David: Bersal,
from Ben Rabbi Solomon the Levite. and
Bril- from Ben Rabbi Judah the Levite.
The cxcgctical names are also peculiar
~ Jewish. They consist of equivalents
lur Hebrew names, derived from colloca-
tions In biblical tests. Thus the COM
parsons in Jacobs blessing furnish
equivalents for Benjamin in Wolf. for
Judah in Lion and for Naphtali in Hart.
Fisher Is an equivalent FOR Ephraim, be
cause it was foretold Gen. Xviii, I0
that he should multiply exceedingly, and
the fish is a symbol Of fruitfulncss II Is
also sometimes a substitute for Moses,
because Pharaoh's daughter, in giving
him his name, said Exodus il. 10)i
"FOr | drew him CUB Of the water"
st. James Gazette.