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Teacup9

Mon, Aug 08 2011, 1:44 am

So if Baila is pure, white, beautiful, etc then we have the very popular (and quite lovely)
Baila Bracha - pure blessing

and I can think of more like
Baila Aliza - pure joy
Baila Shira - beautiful song
Baila Tehila - beautiful praise
Baila Lila - pure night (exotic no?)
Baila Boker - Rolling Laughter

What can you think of? I welcome serious or jest. I am especially unfamiliar with yiddish names and meanings. Also I am partial to the beis beis.

My grandmother was Baila Braina (Brenna?) spelled beis, resh, yud, yud, nun, alef. So was she "pure brunette?" "beautiful brunette?" Was this common or was she not born bald like the rest of us?

torahtots

Mon, Aug 08 2011, 1:45 pm

Actually in Hebrew the adjective comes after the noun, so if you wanted "Baila" to modify the other name, it would have to come second.

I prefer it spelled with a "y" - Bayla. I think there is less confusion on pronunciation.

What about Baila Tova - Pure and good
Baila Zeesa - Pure and sweet

Ruchel

Mon, Aug 08 2011, 1:47 pm

Baila comes from Bella. Beautiful.

DovDov

Mon, Aug 08 2011, 2:01 pm

Tova Baila is actually pretty common -- I know at least three.

Ruchel, when I looked into the origins of Baila, I heard there were three possibilities and it might well have derived separately. Latinate Bella, for beauty, as you said, Slavic Bela (pronounced closer to Baila), for white, and as a contraction for Baruch Hashem L'olam Amein. I have an ancestress who spelled her name in Hebrew beit-yud-lamed-aleph-vav -- presumably, for the "v'amein" at the end of that pasuk.

Ruchel

Mon, Aug 08 2011, 2:05 pm

From what I found, Bella became Baila in more Ashkenazic territories, and in Slavic places the word bela made it even more attractive.

red sea

Mon, Aug 08 2011, 2:56 pm

I know a bunch of sora baila or baila sara's

Teacup9

Tue, Aug 09 2011, 4:14 pm

If the person's headstone read Bet, yud, lamed, hay is the name no longer Baila or could this be an error? I've always seen it as bet, yud, yud, lamed, alef as the Yiddish spelling and then there is the acronym spelling someone mentioned above.

ewa-jo

Tue, Aug 09 2011, 4:24 pm

How about Chaya Baila.... beautiful life!

DovDov

Tue, Aug 09 2011, 4:24 pm

I think bet yud lamed hey is still Baila, just clearly not the acronym. The only problematic spelling, AFAIK, is bet yud lamed ayin, which is the name of a son of Binyamin's, and presumptively a man's name which can cause trouble, I understand, for gittin.

Ruchel

Tue, Aug 09 2011, 4:34 pm

Occasionally you could find a final hey instead of alef.

Ayin is a "eh" sound in Yiddish. In older yiddish they would use a yud for that.

DovDov

Tue, Aug 09 2011, 4:36 pm

Ruchel wrote:

Occasionally you could find a final hey instead of alef.

Ayin is a "eh" sound in Yiddish. In older yiddish they would use a yud for that.

I know, but most yiddish speakers I know pronounce what we call "Baila" "Bayleh". So ayin would be the presumptive way to spell it, as it's a yiddish name -- but it's not spelled that way because of Bela ben Binyamin.