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

[Mitch Stone]

Neither is spelling is correct -- the usual English spelling is Mohel. But 
I suppose any transliteration works as well as another, since the word is 
Hebrew. And, believe it or not:

http://mohel.com/

What, so you shouldn't find this on the internet?

On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 11:19 AM, sturde@az.com wrote:

> 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

   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com