Does anyone know what the name "Seinfeld" means?

Alot of last names have meanings...like "Son of" someone...or "carpenter", etc. ..I tried going to Genealogy websites..but couldn't find the meaning of "Seinfeld"..I assume its German, but then again; could be Polish, (Nanna's pony). Anyone know/or want to give it a shot? (By the way; anyone ever notice that three of the four people who play the main characters have first names contained in their last names?--Jason ALEXANDER, Michael RICHARD(s), Julia LOUIS-Dreyfus).

On 24 Sep 2002 16:08:11 -0700, [email] (zvoidx) wrote:

Well, I suppose A LOT of the members of this group read the post with
glee and wonder ... what will Mike say here?    A LOT of thought will
go into my answer but it will not be A LOT of sarcasm or any other
mean spirited type of response.   That would be insulting and A LOT of
people resent that.    So I DON'T DO IT!
Well, maybe    abit.      :-)

But the meaning of Seinfeld...hum "feld" is a "field", "sein" is from the verb "to be" so "To be a field"? - Nope don't think so.

But we have some German members of this group - perhaps they know A LOT more than I do about it. :-)

Good question. Nice to have a question we have never seen before.

Thanks

In article , [email] says...

Maybe it's Infield.

What do you call a good farmer? A man outstanding in his field. Maybe his forefathers were farmers.

"Noone" wrote in message news:[email]...

Hi

I'm from Germany.

You were right Feld means field, but Sein could mean "to be" or "his", so it could mean "his field", but I'm not sure.

A lot of jewish names have a German meaning like Mandelbaum ("You think you're better than me"). Mandel is some kind of nut and baum means tree.

Get it???

Johannes

[email] (zvoidx) writes:

Son Of Dad (its kind of a catch all)