Surname · also Yiddish
Zilberstein
“silver”
Zilberstein is a surname from Yiddish, ultimately from Old High German.
Original Yiddishזילבערשטיין
Meaning & origin
What it means
Zilberstein goes back to Yiddish זילבער, meaning “silver.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Zilberstein comes from Yiddish, and ultimately from Old High German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Yiddish זילבערשטיין, from Yiddish זילבער (“silver”), from Yiddish שטיין (“stone”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Zilberstein’s family of names
In English usage, Zilberstein as a surname was borrowed from the Yiddish form זילבערשטיין.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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