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Re: Re[2]: Yiddish on List

On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, the Cheshire Cat wrote:

> No, the kin ending might be whatever - it's the -in ending that's Russian.
> While the names that my family name were derived from were certainly
> Yiddish, the ending is RUssian. In fact, Soskin is actually  a fairly
> common Russian name.
 Let me clarify this, upon re-reading it isn't obvious what I could
possibly mean. 
There's a Russian ending -in, which sometimes appears with a consonant in
order to affix it to a name which ends in a vowel. 
This is different from the Yiddish -kin ending.

Alana

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