[Avodah] Pesukim LeShemos Anoshim

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 16/08/16 21:34, Isaac Balbin via Avodah wrote:
> What does the Minhag say, if anything, about the name Zelig (which is
> Asher, I believe). I haven’t seen a Pasuk that starts with a Zayin
> and ends with a Gimmel.

The LR told my uncle Zelig to say Tehillim 112:4, from which one may
learn that the correct Yiddish spelling is with a kuf, not the German
gimel.

(In German a G at the end of a word turns into a K sound.  It used to be
the fashion in Yiddish to spell German-derived words as close to the
original German spelling as one could get, presumably to show off ones
mastery of that language.  But for the last century or so Yiddish has been
spelt phonetically except for Hebrew-derived words (and the communists
eliminated even that exception), so the Kuf ending is more appropriate.)

Beis Shmuel (as cited in Kav Noki) gives the first spelling as zayin ayin
lamed yud kuf, followed by variants omitting the ayin or turning the kuf
into a gimel, as well as suffixes such as "-man", "-in".  In footnote 18
the Kav Noki says that Mahari Mintz has a long discussion about this and
concludes that since neither the ayin nor the kuf/gimel substitution has
much affect on the pronunciation the get is kosher either way.
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=22275&pgnum=152


-- 
Zev Sero               Meaningless combinations of words do not acquire
zev at sero.name          meaning merely by appending them to the two other
                        words `God can'.  Nonsense remains nonsense, even
                        when we talk it about God.   -- C S Lewis