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Chava Golar
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 Mon, May 09 2011, 2:34 pm
My friend and I had a hard time thinking of any Jewish girls name without the ending sound
"a" [as in Chava, Baila, Devora], "el/le" [Shirel, Rochel, Gittle, Faydel] or "it/is" [Yehudis, Nurit] besides for the name Miriam.
Can you?
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Chava Golar
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Mon, May 09 2011, 2:35 pm
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BTW, Nicknames were not included
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bigsis144
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Mon, May 09 2011, 2:39 pm
What about not "eet" but "ette" like Ayelet, Ateret, Kineret?
Do Avigayil or Michal count as an "elle"?
Esther
Yocheved
Serach
Naomi
Rus/Ruth
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shalhevet
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Mon, May 09 2011, 3:03 pm
Achinoam
Elisheva (although in English it looks like it ends in "ah", it ends in ayin in Hebrew, not heh, so it's actually a different sound)
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intrigued
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Mon, May 09 2011, 3:21 pm
[quote="Tamiri"]Osnat
Iris
Irit[/quote]
OP mentioned the is/it ending as one of the 3 common endings.
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zaq
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Mon, May 09 2011, 3:24 pm
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Avital, Merav, Michal, Meital, Avigayil, Yael and Rachel, which aren't the same "el" as Freidel because it's part of the name, not a diminutive suiffix, Ruth, Tamar, shall I go on? I'm not even touching the newly-created Israeli names like Sivan and Ziv, many of which are used for both girls and boys, or Hadas, which is a variant of the more usual Hadassah.
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Tamiri
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Mon, May 09 2011, 3:25 pm
[quote="intrigued"] | Tamiri wrote: | Osnat
Iris
Irit[/quote]
OP mentioned the is/it ending as one of the 3 common endings. | Yes, you are right. I'm too tired to read properly 
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zaq
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Mon, May 09 2011, 3:26 pm
| bigsis144 wrote: |
Do Avigayil or Michal count as an "elle"?
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No. Those are not diminutives.
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bigsis144
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Mon, May 09 2011, 3:28 pm
| zaq wrote: | | bigsis144 wrote: |
Do Avigayil or Michal count as an "elle"?
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No. Those are not diminutives. |
OP mentioned "Rochelle" and "Shirel", though, which are not diminutives. I assumed that therefore included names like Yael, Danielle, etc.
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Chava Golar
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Mon, May 09 2011, 4:07 pm
| zaq wrote: | | Avital, Merav, Michal, Meital, Avigayil, Yael and Rachel, which aren't the same "el" as Freidel because it's part of the name, not a diminutive suiffix, Ruth, Tamar, shall I go on? I'm not even touching the newly-created Israeli names like Sivan and Ziv, many of which are used for both girls and boys, or Hadas, which is a variant of the more usual Hadassah. |
.... I had not realized that there was a name "Freid". 
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bigsis144
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Mon, May 09 2011, 4:11 pm
| Chava Golar wrote: | | zaq wrote: | | Avital, Merav, Michal, Meital, Avigayil, Yael and Rachel, which aren't the same "el" as Freidel because it's part of the name, not a diminutive suiffix, Ruth, Tamar, shall I go on? I'm not even touching the newly-created Israeli names like Sivan and Ziv, many of which are used for both girls and boys, or Hadas, which is a variant of the more usual Hadassah. |
.... I had not realized that there was a name "Freid". |
Freida / Frayda, Gitta / Gutta, Faiga, etc. would be the "real" names; with the diminutive suffix "el" they become Freidel, Gittel, Faigel, etc., and we've come to treat those like real names. (Kind of like giving your child the name "Jack" on his birth certificate -- it's become an accepted name, not just a nickname for John.)
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Chava Golar
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Mon, May 09 2011, 7:07 pm
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Oh, I see. You are right. I always thought that Gittle was the real name.
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