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Silberkleit

Silber is silver. I wonder what "kleit" is? A clinical term for what organ?

24 posted on 07/10/2011 11:37:55 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

“kleid” is dress — I think it means “silver dress” (although in her case it should be something else)


30 posted on 07/10/2011 1:35:07 PM PDT by hemogoblin
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To: Right Wing Assault
As far as I can tell, "kleit" is probably an archaic spelling of Kleid: dress or garment.

I have read that many of the family names involving gold-, silber-, fein-, or -stein stem from a list of names that Jewish families in Germany were forced to purchase during the middle ages; a sort of punitive tax. The richer-sounding names, e.g., Goldstein or Feingold, cost more.

31 posted on 07/10/2011 1:52:21 PM PDT by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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