Re: [Cz-L] The given name 'Muniu'?

Also mostly a Moritz was called Bubi. Had two uncles with those names.
And in Austria every Joseph answers also to the name of Pepi.
Berti
( From Berthold in my case, not Norbert or Herbert or other ...berts).

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Shellie Wiener <s_wiener_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth:
> My Fessler family members, born in Dorna after 1900, used these nicknames:
> - Jacob, called Kubschu
> - Emanuel, called Munu
> - Isidor, called Isu
> - Oscar, called Schiku
> - Salomon, called Salo
> - Israel, called Srulik
> and my cousin's husband was
> - Friedrich, called Fritz [Klipper]
>
> On the other side of my family [Poland], my great grand-aunt married a Jewish fellow from Galatz, Romania. His name was Emanuel but he was always called Manole by the family. Clearly a different influence on the diminutive than above. More like Manolo Blahnik.
>
> Re: Mitzi - a girl's name, it is a variant of Miriam (Hebrew). Mitzi is German, and the meaning of Mitzie is "star of the sea". [Don't quote me - this is an on-line name history source.] Mimi is also a variant of Miriam.
>
> What it the origin of the name Mirtza? Is it also a variant of Miriam? I had a Putila-born cousin called Minnie in the US but her name in Bukovina was Mirtza.
>
> Shellie
>

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