etymology

[William Ryan]

The second of those two names is presumably a typo for Warburg? Named 
after a town in Germany and not the village in Alberta?

Will Ryan, former custodian of the library of Aby of that ilk.

On 02/04/2014 15:58, Alina Israeli wrote:
> I'd like to add a couple of Jewish toponymic last names: Lincoln and Wahburg, the bankers.
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> On Apr 2, 2014, at 10:47 AM, Robert Rothstein <rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU> wrote:
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>> On 4/2/2014 5:46 AM, John Dunn wrote:
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>>> 3. I presume ������ is another matrilineal surname; what about ������ and �������?
>> Yes, ������ < Golde, ������� < Tseytl (or Tsaytl - one of Tevye's daughters). ������ is most likely from the name of the city, a common source of Jewish family names, although usually derived with a suffix, e.g., Berliner, Warszawski, Krakauer. There's no femine counterpart to the masculine name Berl (< Ber). The songwriter Irving Berlin was born Isador Beilin (< Beyle).
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>> Bob Rothstein
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