On 16 Jan 2001, 15:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> An Internet friend of my youngest brother asked him last night if he
> could find the Yiddish equivalent of the first name Pamela, which as you
> might imagine got passed along to me....8-P
I get the impression from researching your question that the Yiddish
form of Pamela is "Pesa-Leah".
http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/toc08.htm
http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/academic/languages/yiddish/
mendele/vol08.015
> I'm not worried about the Hebrew spelling, as it would be a bear to
> replicate in a list where ASCII is the norm...:-/
Yiddish and Hebrew are two distinct languages.
Here is a Yiddish/English dictionary that you might find handy:
http://www.get-together.net:8080/dicti/
dic.frTrans?lang_from_=ji&lang_to_=en
Note: The above URL is actually one continuous line and should be
entered into your browser's address box as one line.
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
