its my last name and id like to know what it means. im pretty sure it is russian, althought it may be lithuanian. anyone know?
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its my last name and id like to know what it means. im pretty sure it is russian, althought it may be lithuanian. anyone know?
The name sound rather German then Russian to me. Perhaps it's the name of (German) jews.
It means "lead man" (lead is here the noun for the metal not the verb руководить)
This name seems to be either German or Yiddish.
he was russin, but ive heard from a few sources its yiddish. anyone know where i could get it translate
he was russin, but ive heard from a few sources its yiddish. anyone know where i could get it translate
Well, he may have been a jew living in russia, but that doesn't make his name russian.
Yiddish is basically an old German dialect with some vocabulary from Slavonic languages (Russian and Polish).
It is well known that a great number of Yiddish speaking jews lived under Russian rule before WWII. As Dogboy182 stated this fact does't turn a Yiddish or German name into a Russian one.
The translation you have asked for I have already given in my post of July 27.
ok well thank you.
i know just cuz he was a jew in russia that doesnt mean his name was russian, i thought that cuz someone told me it was
Generally, last names of 'lietuvas bralukas' have the end as '-as', '-us', '-is'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madoublet98
It's not lithuanian! :P
It's Mongol!
wha-what? I assure you it's Mongol!
How can you prove it?
Ok I thought you could believe because of my assured manner...
Ok I lied... :(
Why didn't you believe me?? :(
:lol2:
Because I know you like the back of my hand! :D ;)
like your five Russian fingers yeh? :lol:
Yeh, and you can't turn me round your little finger! :)
when I try to say a false the Truth flows out like the water through the fingers.
I think you should try to look it up in dictionaries, try to find what does the word "Blei" mean, may be it's shirt form from some word. There r thousands and thousands of Jewish names of that type, btw, some German words are identical or almost identical to English words, for instance, here in Israel we have one man in Politics with surename "Liberman" and he is a Russian-Moldovain Jew in his origin, so his name comes from Yiddish/German of course but it's identical to English in this situation too. Liberman comes from the words Liberty+man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madoublet98
He posted his question a while back...