לייב
'lion; Leib (name)'
לייבל
(diminutive)

ETYMOLOGY

{Why final [b] in all Y dialects?}

{Beider 2015: 103.}
Proto-Yiddish ✱leːb; Proto-EY ✱leɪb
Protovowel E2.
{Katz 1982: 59}
from MHG lewe, lebe, leb; cf. NHG, Löwe, Leb.
Levi - Löb {Beem, Jerosche, №553}

II. MHG lewe, leb; from OHG lēo, lewo, louuwo, (rare) leb.
III. Borrowed from Latin leō; borrowed from Greek λέον.

{AHDW 5:867. DW¹ 15:1215. Lexer 1:1893. Pfeiffer EWD "Löwe".}

WESTERN

lēb {Schnitzler, Prager Judendeutsch, 24}

Leib {Friedrich 1784: XVI}

Holland (Netherlands)

leib {HOLLAND, Beem, Jerosche, №553}
- Leibschen moss nach Leipzig (emphasis on moss). 'Levi must go to Leipzig. He is a doorkeeper. (Original: Hij is een doordrijver.)' {Jerosche №553}

Switzerland

leib {Endingen, Gustav Dreifuss, Fleischer 2005:82}
laiə, im laiən {SWITZERLAND, Fleischer 2005}

Oyberland (West Transcarpathian)

lę̄f ~ lēw ~ lȫwę {literary German influence} {WTCP, Budapest, Hutterer 1965: 127, 132, 141}
- lę̄wn̥ (plural)

CENTRAL

laip {Hutterer 1965: 141}

HASIDIC

AMERICA

lajb̥

NORTHEASTERN

Lithuania

ɫéjbɛ {LITHUANIA, Vilnius, 54257}