Talk:Morgentaler

meaning of the name

Here's why I wrote "probably" in the meaning section: The part "taler" in the name could mean

• valley (Morning Valley)
• coin. (Morning Coin)

In many other jewish and non-newish germanic names the part "taler" is written with th (thaler) due to the old German orthography of "the valley" with th (Thal). The th was always kept in the name after the orthography of the valley changed to "Tal". E.g. Rosenthal (jewish) or Marthaler (non-jewish). Goldie Morgentaler told me about that th-issue that Yiddish, the language of the Ashkenai Jews, is traditionally written with the Hebrew alphabet, which is phonectical and has no th-sound. Later, when the name was written in the Latin alphabeth of the German language, only a t was written. That's what makes me believe "taler" means "valley" even without th.

Mmorgy (talk) 15:51, 18 January 2011 (UTC)