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zilberstein

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
zil-ber-stein
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Yiddish

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish זילבערשטיין (zilbershteyn), from Yiddish זילבער (zilber, “silver”) and Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “stone”), from Old High German.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: זילבער, שטיין, -

Inflected Forms

Zilbersteins (plural)

Questions

What does zilberstein mean?
A surname from Yiddish
Where does zilberstein come from?
It is traced to Yiddish.

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