Re: Yiddish/Hungarian name spelling needed #hungary
tom
names are always a genealogical question!
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the hungarian version of susan is zsuzsanna, which comes >from the biblical hebrew shoshanah, which means lily (and is often mistranslated as rose). other common forms of it are zsuzsa and zsuzsi. "sosze" would be pronounced "shoh-seh", which i'm not familiar with, but it's possible. the jewishgen given names database yielded: "shosa/shosha", "shoshe", "sase", "shosha", using the "hungary" option (whatever that means, since almost all the names are listed as "yiddish" anyways, and the spelling clearly DOESN'T follow hungarian orthography). for the purposes of a ketubah, the mother's hebrew name isn't normally used, but if you need it, sussa laya can be spelled sin-vav-sin-heh lamed-alef-heh. (preferably with a sin rather than a samekh, despite yiddish spelling rules, since the name is originally biblical hebrew.) ....... tom klein, toronto ps. to research the name more thoroughly, you might try to find your ggm's birth record (if the mormons have the records on microfilm). the birth registers often (but not always) included the jewish name, in hebrew letters. momteller@... wrote: |
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