Mendelssohn

Borrowed from German Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn (plural Mendelssohns)

1. Alternative spelling of Mendelson.
   • 2004 October 24, Bill Gladstone, “The oldest family in the world”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency‎^[1]:

     The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself.

• Mendelsohn, Mendelsson

From Yiddish מענדעלסאָן (mendelson, literally “son of Mendl”), a patronymic surname from מענדל (mendl, literally “little man”), a diminutive from מאַן (man, “man”) +‎ ⸚דל (⸚dl, suffix forming diminutive nouns), used hypocoristically and suppletively for Hebrew מְנַחֵם (Mənaḥēm, “Menahem, Menachem”, literally “he comforts, consoles”). By surface analysis, Mendel +‎ -s- +‎ Sohn. Compare English Menachem Mendel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛndəlszoːn/, [ˈmɛndl̩szoːn]

Mendelssohn m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Mendelssohns or (with an article) Mendelssohn, feminine genitive Mendelssohn, plural Mendelssohns)

1. an originally Jewish surname from Yiddish, equivalent to English Mendelson
   1. Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), noted early Romantic composer

• English: → Mendelson, ⇒ Mendelssohnian, ⇒ Mendelssohnic
• ⇒ French: mendelssohnien

• Mendelssohn (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mendelssohn (Familienname) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Mendelsohn on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de