Yiddish: Löw, Lœw (surname)

[stam-adam]

Hi, how do you write Löw / Lœw in Yiddish? Or better: does anyone know how was it usually written in registers in 19-th century?
Thanks a lot!

 

[Demiurg]

"Löw" is derived from German "Löwe" (lion) and refers to the Lion of Judah. It's also related to Russian "Lev" (Лев).
The yiddish spelling is לייב ("leyb").

 

[fdb]

The yiddish spelling is לייב ("leyb").

Hence not from NHG Löwe, but from MHG leb(e).

 

[stam-adam]

"Löw" is derived from German "Löwe" (lion) and refers to the Lion of Judah. It's also related to Russian "Lev" (Лев).
The yiddish spelling is לייב ("leyb").

Thanks a lot.
By the way, are you sure it's related to Russian Jewish surname Lev (Лев)? This was usually put as לעוו or ליעוו, while the given name Leyb was spelled as you wrote: לייב .

 

[Demiurg]

Hence not from NHG Löwe, but from MHG leb(e).

The dominant spelling in Latin script is "Löw" or "Loew".

 

[Demiurg]

By the way, are you sure it's related to Russian Jewish surname Lev (Лев)? This was usually put as לעוו or ליעוו .

In the end, these are all variants of "lion": Leon, Leo, Lev, Leib, ... (Лев Бронштейн = Leib Bronstein).

 

[stam-adam]

(Лев Бронштейн = Leib Bronstein)

Are we talking the same thing?
Russian Jewish surname Lev (Лев) was usually put as לעוו or ליעוו, while the given name Leyb was spelled as you wrote: לייב .

 

[Demiurg]

Russian Jewish surname Lev (Лев) was usually put as לעוו or ליעוו, while the given name Leyb was spelled as you wrote: לייב

לעוו is also a transliteration for "Loew". I guess it's similar to German where the last consonant is written as 'w' /v/ but pronounced as /b/ and sometimes also written as 'b': "Loeb" (or with a different spelling: "Leib").

"Leib Bronstein" is the traditional way to write the original name of Leon Trotsky (Лев Троцкий) in German. "Leib" is the transliteration of yiddish לייב and corresponds to Лев.

Löw (or Loew) is a surname of German and Yiddish origin. Another romanization of the Yiddisch name לייב is Leib.

 

[berndf]

Hence not from NHG Löwe, but from MHG leb(e).

לייב can mean loaf (German Laib) or lion (German Löwe) but not life (German Leben). That has ע as a vowel (לעבן) and not יי.

 

[fdb]

לייב can mean loaf (German Laib) or lion (German Löwe) but not life (German Leben). That has ע as a vowel (לעבן) and not יי.

No, I do not mean "Leben". I mean MHG leb(e) "lion".

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[JoMe]

לייב can mean loaf (German Laib) or lion (German Löwe) but not life (German Leben). That has ע as a vowel (לעבן) and not יי.

לייבן for life exists and is not too uncommon Yiddish spelling.