Given Names: Temma, Wichne

[TomHennie]

Dear Genners,
I am always impressed by your analysis of given names. I have two that are
stumping me. What are some other versions of the name Temma? I am
searching a true needle-in-a-haystack with only this given name in the CA
Death Index. All I have to go on in "Temma." Also, what about the female
name "Wichne?" She emigrated from Lithuania to South Africa where she was
called "Vera." Does anyone know the origin of the name "Wichne?"

Thanks in advance for your help,

Hennie Greenland
Scottsdale AZ

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[Prof. G. L. Esterson]

Hennie Greenland <tomh...@aol.com> wrote as follows:

" What are some other versions of the name Temma? I am
searching a true needle-in-a-haystack with only this given name in the CA
Death Index. All I have to go on in "Temma." Also, what about the female
name "Wichne?" She emigrated from Lithuania to South Africa where she was
called "Vera." "

The Hebrew name Tema is linked to the Yiddish names Tema, Teme, and
Temerl. Women emigrating from Lithuania with one of these names
adopted one of the English names Emma, Temmah, or Tessie upon
immigrating to the US. You should search on these English names in the
CA Death index.

The Yiddish name Vichna, used for women in Lithuania, is linked to the
Hebrew name Yocheved, and there are other Yiddish kinuim for
Yocheved: Iocheved, Iochvel, Vichna, Vichne, Yocha, and
Yucha. Incidentally, the Hebrew name Yocheved formed legal Hebrew
double names with the following Yiddish names in Lithuania: Yacha,
Yachlo, Yachna, Yocha, and Yutlin.

Thanks for including the name Vera which she adopted upon immigrating
from Lithuania to South Africa. I will include this name in our Given
Names Data Base for the Lithuania/South-Africa pair.

Shabbat shalom,

Prof. G. L. Esterson, Ra'anana, Israel
je...@vms.huji.ac.il

mailto:je...@vms.huji.ac.il

[Robert Israel]

In article <20000907234241...@ng-fo1.aol.com>,
TomHennie <tomh...@aol.com> wrote:

> What are some other versions of the name Temma? I am
>searching a true needle-in-a-haystack with only this given name in the CA
>Death Index. All I have to go on in "Temma."

I had a great-grandmother whose name was spelled "Tema" on her
headstone, but my father remembers her as "Tamma". In Hebrew
her name was tet-ayin-mem-yud (according to the headstone), but
in the Yiddish obituaries it was tet-ayin-mem-ayin. So all
sorts of spelling variations are possible, especially of the
vowels, and a single rather than double m.

Robert Israel
isr...@math.ubc.ca
Vancouver, BC, Canada