LL-L "Names" 2005.05.11 (02) [E]

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From: Marsha Alley <marshaalley at msn.com>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2005.05.10 (08) [E]


Hi - I used to have a Jewish friend whose parents were from Poland, and he
had visited there frequently.  He swore to me my maiden name of Coin was
pronounced the same as Cohen in the Yiddish of Poland.

Marsha
  ----- Original Message -----

  From: embryomystic at cogeco.ca <embryomystic at cogeco.ca>
  Subject: Van Koughnett/VanConant

  Funny you should mention the Irish Coins and the Jewish Cohens in the same
  email. When I was applying for the job that I was working up until summer
  layoff (a couple of weeks ago; it's a university cafeteria), the woman who
  interviewed me was called Amy O'Coin. Since I'd been reading equal amounts
  of material on Yiddish and Irish, and developing a what-if idea that has
to
  do with Irish Jews who speak a sort of Judeo-Irish (parallel to Yiddish
and
  Ladino), I connected the two names in my mind, and I mentioned it to my
  Irish teacher. Isn't there a tendency in Yiddish for words of Hebrew
origin
  to change -ohe- into -oy-, or am I misremembering or misextrapolating from
  mohel > moyl?


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