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Subject: Re: Meanings of these Jewish names?
Author: Oren   (guest, 80.230.225.140)
Date: September 1, 2004 at 3:24:22 AM
Reply to: Meanings of these Jewish names? by Miss Claire
Tsirl, Cerla, etc are Yiddish variants of Sarah.
Berek is from the common yiddish name Ber (bear)
Rykla is most likely Rachel
Nusen could be Nissan

http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsearch~model~GNDB_POLA~TZIRL~GD~!1!!2!!3!~0~USRECORD1118
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsearch~model~GNDB_POLA~BEREK~GD~!1!!2!!3!~0~USRECORD164
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsearch~model~GNDB_POLA~RYKLA~GD~!1!!2!!3!~0~USRECORD1045

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