ALTER Gender: Masculine Usage: Yiddish Other Scripts: אַלְתֵר (Yiddish) 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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