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Tsvi-Hirsh

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Tsvi Hirsh, Tzvi Hirsh, Zebi Hirsh, Zvi Hirsh, etc. (Yiddish: צבי-הירש‎) is a bilingual pleonasmic Jewish name doublet, literally "deer-deer", traceable back to the Hebrew word צבי‎ tsvi "deer" and the Middle High German word hirz "deer".[1]: 138  Notable people with the name include:

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  1. ^ Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403917232 [1]