Schoenmaker (was V)

[Henry Musikar]

As one of the youngest that have learned some Yiddish, I do know that 
in both German and Yiddish it means beautiful/pretty (I had a Tante 
Shayne). Check out Handel and Oy/Oh Tennenbaum. Macher is maker, by 
the way, just Anglo it a little and you get the "maker" in a lot of 
names.

"Come back, Shoenmaker!"

On 24 Jun 96 at 21:28, Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt wrote:

> In German, Schoenmacher (or Schoenmacher, to be exact) would be
> beautiful-maker, not a word that exists but that could be cobbled
> together in the German fashion. The '-maker' however leads me to
> believe that one should rather look at Dutch (or Plattdeutsch, or
> Yiddish) for the origin of Schoenmaker. In Afrikaans, which is very
> much like Dutch, skoenmaker means shoemaker, whereas 'skoon' would
> be beautiful. I've always assumed Schoenmaker means shoemaker
> (wasn't Pinocchio's maker a shoemaker?)... but who nose (ugh).
> Anyone with a Dutch (or Yiddish) dictionary out there?
> 
> hg
> hag at iafrica.com
> 
> 

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