Monday, August 23, 2004
First Names of Lithuanian Given Names Database
Yiddish is Zlate/Zlote from Czech calque: Golda
Yiddish Nickname is Zlatele/Zlootke/Zlatke
US Name: Jennie/Lottie/Selma/Zlottie
Hattie: Legal Hebrew is Eta dem'ya. Etka dem'ya. Etl
Yiddish Ete from Yiddish/German "noble"
Yiddish Nickname: Etele/Etil/Etke/Etl/Etlye/Etsye
US Name :Elsie/Hattie, Anna, and others. ie Helen, Adella, Edna, Ethel, Etta, Gussie, Ida, Kate/Yetta/Yettie. (She was referred to as Hattie in Portland. On the 1910 census she was "Addie". I don't know when Zlotta was used or how we got it. Could it be that her husband referred to her as that which would be "Golda" for the Goldfoot surname?)
Grandfather Nathan Goldfoot: Nachum on tombstone if I translated correctly:
Legal Hebrew: Nachum
Yiddish, Nakhim/Nakhum/Nokhem/Nokhim/Nokhum/Nokum/Nukhim
Yiddish Nickname: Khuna/Huna/Nokha/Nokhemke/Nokheml/Nokhemtse/Nokho/Noshl
US Name: Nahum, Nathan/Norman
female form in Yiddish is Nakhama, the name I used in Israel. (Nakhama Eskow).
US Name: Anna/ Emma/Nancy/Naomi/Nechamah/Nettie. Aunt Ann was called Hammie, probably from Nechamah.