Jewish family names and their origins : an etymological dictionary
Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Author), Eva H. Guggenheimer (Author)
Dictionaries
xliii, 882 pages ; 26 cm
9780881252972, 0881252972
25093664
| Preface | vii | ||||
| Introduction | ix | ||||
| Jewish Proper Names | xi | ||||
| Biblical Names | xi | ||||
| Other Hebrew Names | xii | ||||
| Names in the Vernacular | xiii | ||||
| Sobriquets | xiv | ||||
| Substitute Names | xiv | ||||
| Animal Names | xv | ||||
| Allusions and Equivalents | xvi | ||||
| Bodily Features | xvii | ||||
| Special Situations | xvii | ||||
| Professional and Place Names | xviii | ||||
| House Names | xxi | ||||
| Modification of Names | xxii | ||||
| Truncation | xxiii | ||||
| Amplification | xxiii | ||||
| Diminutives | xxiv | ||||
| Endearments | xxiv | ||||
| Vowel Changes | xxiv | ||||
| Acronyms | xxv | ||||
| Composite Names | xxv | ||||
| Patronymics and Matronymics | xxvi | ||||
| Translations | xxvii | ||||
| Spelling | xxviii | ||||
| Multiple Explanations | xxx | ||||
| Abbreviations | xxxiii | ||||
| Bibliography | xxxvi | ||||
| Alphabets | xxxix | ||||
| Special Letters in Roman Alphabet | xxxix | ||||
| Cyrillic Alphabet | xl | ||||
| Arabic-Farsi Alphabet | xli | ||||
| Hebrew Alphabet | xlii | ||||
| Use of the Dictionary | xliii | ||||
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