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ALTER

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Yiddish

Other Scripts: אַלְתֵר (Yiddish)

Means "old" in Yiddish. 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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