Yitta - where does this name originate from

amother

Sun, Jul 19 2009, 12:17 pm

I had a grandmother named Yitta. Spelled yud, vuv, tess, alef. My dd is named after her and I am curious to know the meaning of this name. Is it yiddish, changed from a secular name or maybe a variation ofa hebrew name?

amother

Sun, Jul 19 2009, 12:26 pm

I was told that Yetta comes from Yocheved...Yitta and Yetta seem pretty close to me.

(I could be totally wrong, this is just what I was told!)

Ruchel

Sun, Jul 19 2009, 12:28 pm

Yitta is from Yehudit as far as I know, but these names are machlokes lol

manhattanmom

Sun, Jul 19 2009, 1:16 pm

amother wrote:

I'm just wondering if you thought of researching this before you named your dd??

amother

Sun, Jul 19 2009, 2:36 pm

My jewish name is Yitta, and it's spelled exactly the way you mentioned. I have no idea what the source is, but it's definitely NOT the same as Yehudit. I'm named after a great-grandmother.
My secular name is Judith.

amother

Sun, Jul 19 2009, 9:06 pm

I am a Yitta in Yiddish, named after a great aunt, my Hebrew name is Yehudit

elf123

Sun, Jul 19 2009, 10:38 pm

Ruchel, my mother's middle name is Yenta, which she has told me comes from the French "gentille." Wondering if you know if there's any truth to this?

momsprince

Sun, Jul 19 2009, 10:47 pm

elf123 wrote:

Ruchel, my mother's middle name is Yenta, which she has told me comes from the French "gentille." Wondering if you know if there's any truth to this?

My grandmother says Yenta means princess in German but I really wouldn't know for sure.

Ruchel

Mon, Jul 20 2009, 8:40 am

elf123 wrote:

Ruchel, my mother's middle name is Yenta, which she has told me comes from the French "gentille." Wondering if you know if there's any truth to this?

Yes. But "gentille" at this time meant "noble", not "nice".

Ruchel

Mon, Jul 20 2009, 8:41 am

momsprince wrote:

elf123 wrote:

Ruchel, my mother's middle name is Yenta, which she has told me comes from the French "gentille." Wondering if you know if there's any truth to this?

My grandmother says Yenta means princess in German but I really wouldn't know for sure.

This would be Prinzessin, which I did find in some archives as a Jewish name.

amother

Mon, Jul 20 2009, 10:46 am

How does Yehudis have a connection to Yitta? op. here.
Ruchel- A while ago you posted a link of a Jewish names website. can you please post it again so I can look it up? TY

Ruchel

Mon, Jul 20 2009, 1:41 pm

Yehudit -> Yehudis - > Yidis ->Yitta

Two good sites about Jewish names are the Jewish section of Behindthename, and http://www.jewishgen.org/datab.....ames/

merelyme

Mon, Jul 20 2009, 1:55 pm

momsprince wrote:

elf123 wrote:

Ruchel, my mother's middle name is Yenta, which she has told me comes from the French "gentille." Wondering if you know if there's any truth to this?

My grandmother says Yenta means princess in German but I really wouldn't know for sure.

This would be Prinzessin, which I did find in some archives as a Jewish name.[/quote]

Yenta or Yentl comes from the name Gentilia (genteel), which translates to Adina or Aidel.

shosh

Mon, Jul 20 2009, 3:33 pm

My grandma was Ita. Is that also a variant of Yitta? Come to think of it, she had an aunt called Yetta ...