-stein names: -stine, or -steen?

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:10 PM -0500 1/12/06, Amy West wrote:
>...
>Yiddish has MHG as an ancestor, so the -ee- variant of -stein names
>may have its stem there. However, as Fritz says, it's a good question
>whether this is really an effect of Anglicization/Americanization.
>
>I know zippo Yiddish.
>...

...not to be confused with Zeppo Yiddish, in turn closely related to
Groucho Yiddish, Chico Hispano-Yiddish, and Harpo YSL (that's Yiddish
sign language, not Yves St.-Laurent).

--Larry, an old-time Marxist