Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin/Names

In addition to secular names, religious Jews also use a Hebrew name for liturgical purposes, in the form (NAME ben/bas father/mother's Hebrew name). Converts use "NAME ben/bas Avrohom vă-Soro".

Nicknames

Nicknames may be formed with the -in, -lăn, or the double diminutive -(i)non. For example, Yacăv 'Jacob' may become Yancin, Yałcin, Yaclăn, or Yacnon.

Female nicknames often use the feminine diminutive -ăg (~ Irish -óg): Șifrăg (< Șifrǎ 'Shiphrah'), Chownăg (< Chownă/Chană 'Hannah'), Rivgăg (< Rivgă 'Rebekah'), etc.

Biblical names

Some might sound weirder to us, such as Chownă 'Hannah' (ħannå; *ann > own in some Ăn Yidiș dialects)

Some Biblical names are more commonly used than in our timeline, like Orpă and Chefzíbăh

Given names (non-Biblical)

Male

Often animal names

• Sandăr, Ałasdăr
• אַרתּ, אַרתּין Art, Artin 'bear', דובארתּ Doavart
• זאב Zeyv 'wolf'
• שיענאך Șienăch (Sheenakh) 'fox' (also a surname)
• ףיען Fien (Fionn)
• ףיעך Fiech (Fiach) 'raven', שענין Șenin (Seanéan; from MIr senén) 'crow'
• עקיבא Ăgívă (Akiva)
• רונן Runin (Rónain, Rónán, Roonin), Heb. 'he rejoiced'
• הוֹזינוֹר Huzinur from Hivantish

Vestigial genitive forms of names are still found in surnames, e.g. מאכּ שיעניח mac Șienih

Female

• כּלין Calin (Colleen) 'little bride'; Colleen is mainly a Jewish name in Irta's US
• ניעב Niev (Niamh)
• שירה Șiră (Shira, Síora)
  • Siora should be a misread Irish name in Irtan English (like Caitlin)
• רוֹשין Rușin (Róisín, Rooshin)
• רינּה Rin(n)ă (Ríona, also an Irish name) 'singing, joy'

Unisex

• אַשלין Așlin (Ashlin, Aisling): 'vision, calling'

Surnames

Elements that were originally patronymics:

• Gaelic: for men: מאַכּ חיים mac Chaym "son of Chaym".
  • The counterpart for unmarried women is ניצש חיים nic̦ Chaym (nic̦ +lenition < inghenL mhaiccL _ 'daughter of a mac _'); a wife of a mac Chaym takes the surname מען מאַכּ חיים men mac Chaym.
  • u (m), ni +lenition (daughter), men-i +lenition (wife) are not productive; they only survive in a small handful of names that come from pre-Ăn Yidiș Gaelic clans of Irtan Medieval France, such as u Ceyv (~ Ó Caoimh, O'Keeffe)
• Semitic: בּן/בּר/בּת חיים, חיימי ben (m)/bar (m)/bas (f) Chaim, Chaimi
• Azalic: חיימסאָן, חיימטאָתּ Chaimson, Chaimdot

Common surnames:

• Cuhăn (> Bamăriș Cowhăn, hence anglicized as Cohen)
• Leyvi, Leyvin, Leyvăch, mac Leyvi
• Șifrăch
• Ferșihă (Eng. Fershia, Hiv. Takanérå; ~ Forsyth) 'man of peace' (sometimes Hebraized to Ish-Sholem)
• Șumăr (Schomer, Schumer, Seo(bh)mar, Siúmar), from שומר 'guardian'
• u Ceyv
• u Fłahărtih
• Romonuyan (from Hivantish Råmånujannur)

Relex Ashkenazi surnames, native surnames are sometimes deliberately Hibernized, Ripheanized, or Hivantized

• Goldberg: Beņ-Oar (Binn-Óir, Auxavirgu)
  • Phonosemantically matched to Ben-Or and sometimes translated as "mac Sołăs" or "mac Sołăș" (anglicized as McSullus, McSullish)
• Steinbeck: Łoch-Cłehă, Agmanudagar

Surnames like Łoch-Cłehă should be in the genitive? Łochă-Cłehă

Notable Tsarfati Jews

• Ādam na Binne-Fīna and Alastair Lēvech, influential CF-Trician Irish-language writers
• סקאָט מאַק אהרון Scott McAaron (Sgod mac Ahárăn) - quantum physicist and computer scientist
• Emil Artin, algebraist
• Síofra Rónán (שפרה רונן Șifră Runin), scholar of Tsarfati Jewish history in Irta and Crackfic Tricin
• Ríona na Binne-Cloeche (רינה בּין׳-כּל׳עהא), politician
• Iolar Agmanudagar, Ăn Yidiș playwright
• Pól Iósaif Cōhinı, set theorist
• Aoife (Edna) O'Flaherty, Irta Canadian video game creator, conlanger and composer
• Huzinur Mac Cōhinı, Old Irish philologist
• Miriam Himedaught, vegan cook
• Mur-Righăn (placeholder pseudonym), folk metal singer