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Pronunciation of Bers in I live in Hamden, Connecticut, but my family is from Latvia (and before that Lithuania)
| as | is pronounced as | as | in gas | |
| in | is pronounced as | in | in pin |
Phonetic Spelling:[ As in "bears." ]
As
in
gas
pin
Type of Name:
Last name
Language:
Yiddish. Prob. patronymic from first name Ber.
Alternate Spelling(s):
Berzs (following Lettish [Latvian language] orthography)
Meaning:
Probably, Ber's son or daughter (cf. Malkin, a matronymic, child of Malke)
Additional Information:
This Jewish name should be distinguished from Behrs, a German name, as in Sophia Behrs, Tolstoy's wife.
In Yiddish the name "Ber" itself means the animal, the bear.It was often combined with the Hebrew equivalent, Dov, hence the name Dov-Ber (or Duber):
see Max Weinreich, History of the Yiddish Language (New York, 2008) vol. 1, p. 310.
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Pronunciation of Bers in I live in Hamden, Connecticut, but my family is from Latvia (and before that Lithuania)
"Bears"
Type of Name:
Last name
Language:
Yiddish. Prob. patronymic from first name Ber.
Alternate Spelling(s):
Berzs (following Lettish [Latvian language] orthography)
Meaning:
Probably, Ber's son or daughter (cf. Malkin, a matronymic, child of Malke)
Additional Information:
This Jewish name should be distinguished from Behrs, a German name, as in Sophia Behrs, Tolstoy's wife.
In Yiddish the name "Ber" itself means the animal, the bear.It was often combined with the Hebrew equivalent, Dov, hence the name Dov-Ber (or Duber):
see Max Weinreich, History of the Yiddish Language (New York, 2008) vol. 1, p. 310.
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