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ALTER
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Gender: Masculine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: אַלְתֵר (Yiddish)
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Means either "old" in Yiddish or "the other" in Latin. This name was traditionally given to a sickly newborn by Jewish parents in order to confuse the Angel of Death, in the hopes that he would go looking for somebody younger or somebody else. |
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