[Am-info] Re: Moil or Moyle or ?

[sturde@az.com]

In <20020214170102.EB37C29BC5@lists.essential.org>, on 02/14/02 
   at 12:01 PM, am-info-request@venice.essential.org said:

>It's a person (Rabbi?) who performs circumcisions.  But I thought it was
>spelled moyle.  I'm not Jewish.

The concept is correct.  The spelling I am probably wrong about.  It is a
Yiddish term, so I doubt if it would be spelled "moyle".  Yiddish comes
from German and "yle" is not the way German words are spelled if I
remember my German correctly.  Perhaps some on the list knows the correct
spelling.

James Sturdevant

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