Names Celia and Eve
Steven Diamond
I am trying to find out what would be the Hebrew and Yiddish equivelents
for the name Celia. My paternal great grandmother's English name was
Celia. A relative thought that her Hebrew name would have been Checka.
Do any of you know what the Hebrew and Yiddish eqivelents for Celia would
be?
I know that Eve is Chava in Hebrew. Does anyone reading this know what
may be a Yiddish equivelent to Eve. Thank you very much for any
information or insight any of you can give me.
Sincerely,
Steve Diamond
Palmer, Massachusetts
USA
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Named after her were Constance, Cecelia, Carol, and Selma. As has been
said here many times before, there really are no "equivalents."
Carol Raspler, Delray Beach, FL
Steven Diamond wrote:
> I am trying to find out what would be the Hebrew and Yiddish equivelents
> for the name Celia. My paternal great grandmother's English name was
> Celia. A relative thought that her Hebrew name would have been Checka.
> Do any of you know what the Hebrew and Yiddish eqivelents for Celia would
> be?
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Dr. Joseph M. Schwarcz
Yiddish. We have a granddaughter named Adi (adornment, jewel) in Hebrew,
for her grandmother Tsirl whose name was Cecilia in Hungary. Of course,
parents of a girl whose Hebrew or Yiddish name which they transliterated
with a C at the beginning might name their child Celia.
As for Eve, Hava or Chava, that name does not change in Yiddish. The Hebrew
Hava or Chava is the same in Yiddish. Here again, all Eves are not
necessarily Havas. Some parents could name their daughters Eve simply
because they liked the name.
Sincerely,
Ida and Joseph Schwarcz
Arad, Israel
Steven Diamond wrote:
> I am trying to find out what would be the Hebrew and Yiddish equivelents
> for the name Celia. My paternal great grandmother's English name was
> Celia. A relative thought that her Hebrew name would have been Checka.
> Do any of you know what the Hebrew and Yiddish eqivelents for Celia would
> be?
>
> I know that Eve is Chava in Hebrew. Does anyone reading this know what
> may be a Yiddish equivelent to Eve. Thank you very much for any
> information or insight any of you can give me.
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Diane Jacobs
or anyone else in earshot may remember this name:
Celia _______ Singman , wife of Maurice Singman, died l941 buried in
Mt. Ararat, Long Island.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Diane jacobs
New York
> Our GM's name was Celia (Tsvia?? in Hebrew and "Schlema" in Yiddish??)
> Named after her were Constance, Cecelia, Carol, and Selma. As has been
> said here many times before, there really are no "equivalents."
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Judith Romney Wegner
>may be a Yiddish equivelent to Eve. Thank you very much for any
>information or insight any of you can give me.
Chava is the same in Yiddish, i.e., Yiddish uses the Hebrew name "as is"
(sometimes in a yiddish diminutive form Chava-le)
>I am trying to find out what would be the Hebrew and Yiddish equivelents
>for the name Celia.
Could be any number of names. As stated innumerable times on this list
(people must be tired of my constant reiterations!), there are in general
no Hebrew/Yiddish "equivalents" for European names, unless those names
were Hebrew to start with (as is true, for instance, of all names taken
from the Hebrew Bible and many of those found in the New Testament too).
Nor is Celia the equivalent of any Hebrew name. (The only true European
equivalent for any Hebrew name is a European-language name that actually
translates the Hebrew name, i.e. means exactly the same thing as the Hebrew
name -- such as Wolf for Ze'ev or Leo for Aryeh.)
In the case of Celia, one possibility would be the similar-sounding name
Zillah (pronounced Tsillah). She was the third woman actually named in the
Bible -- one of the two wives of Lemekh in Genesis chapter 4: A. One
Yiddish possibility is Tsirel. But, as I said, Celia is not in any
meaningful sense an "equivalent" of any of the above -- it's merely a
"soundalike" or "match" to them.
Judith Romney Wegner
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Shel Bercovich
My wife, known in English as Cylia, has a Yiddish given name of Tziril
(sp?), after her gm; the fond name by which she was normally addressed
by her parents was Tzila, and the Polish fond name by which she was
addressed by her aunt was Tzalusha (sp?).
cras...@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Our GM's name was Celia (Tsvia?? in Hebrew and "Schlema" in Yiddish??)
> Named after her were Constance, Cecelia, Carol, and Selma. As has been
> said here many times before, there really are no "equivalents."
> Steven Diamond wrote:
> > I am trying to find out what would be the Hebrew and Yiddish
> > equivelents for the name Celia.[snip]
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Mathilde Tagger
>I am trying to find out what would be the Hebrew and Yiddish equivelents
>eqivelents for Celia would be?
It seems that the closest Hebrew name to Celia is Tsila, wife of Lemech.
A biblical name (Genesis:4:19)
Shalom,
Mathilde Tagger
Jerusalem, Israel
Researching: ABIHSERA (Morocco), COHEN SCALI (Morocco),DURAN (Algier,
Algeria), FRANCO (Livorno, Italy & Manisa, Turkey), GOMEL (Manisa, Turkey),
MOYAL (Oran, Algeria), TAGGER/TADJER (Sofia, Bulgaria), YESSURUN/JESSURUN
(Worldwide)
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