The story
- Old High German · derived fromfunko“spark”
- Yiddish · borrowed fromפֿינקעלשטיין
- English todayFinkelstein
Borrowed from Yiddish פֿינקעלשטיין (finkelshteyn), from Old High German funko (“spark”) with stein (“stone”).
Words from the same roots
Old High Germanfunko all →
Finkel
First known use, by meaning
- 19th c. A surname from Yiddish.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.