Talk:דאָרפֿמאַן

I went ahead and changed the etymology because listing Yiddish terms as derived from modern German, instead of saying "compare...", is a common IP/n00b mistake. Btw, I would guess this word is a source of the last names "Dorfman" and "Dorfmann", though both could also be German. - -sche (discuss) 05:16, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, but at least we know the compound wasn't formed in Yiddish. In Standard Yiddish, *מאַן (man) has been completely replaced with (deprecated template usage) מענטש (mentsh). That means that it either came prepackaged from MHG or the anon got lucky (in terms of creolistics, Hochdeutsch is the acrolect, so it's not impossible). Re names: most of those Germanic Jewish surnames actually come from German, as evidenced by forms in which the two diverge. Exempli gratiā, the surname meaning tree could have been either Baum or Boym, but only the German form seems to exist in high frequency. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:32, 3 December 2012 (UTC)