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# Loewenstein

🏷 Levi Semitic spook name · name — by Gerry · Nov 2018 · 180 words

The name Loewenstein may be a variant of Loew and thus of Levi. The Stein suffix means “disguised”.

The names Löw & Loeb are officially derived from Levi and listed among the Levite surnames. I would therefore also derive Loewenstein from Levi.

As seen with Löw & Loeb, the letter Waw can be pronounced as [v], [w], and even as Samaritan [b]. Also, the word root from Levi is a B-V-W case and is written lw and lb in various languages.

A stepwise derivation can be seen in the B-V-W variants listed here.

- Levstein
- Levistein
- Levinstein
- Levenstein
- Lovenstein
- Lövenstein
- Loevenstein

- Lebistein
- Lebinstein
- Lebenstein
- Lobenstein
- Löbenstein
- Loebenstein

- Lewistein
- Lewenstein
- Lowenstein
- Löwenstein
- Loewenstein

As of June 2019, ThePeerage.com also lists several hundred Loewensteins in V/B/W variants, further confirming the Levi pun. Note that they even shed their “stone” in “Leveson of Stone”.

- Lowen(3)
- Lowenadler (2)
- Loewenstein-Scharffeneck (2)
- Löwenstein von Freudenburg (5)
- Löwenstein (7)
- Löwenstein-Wertheim (6)
- Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (75)
- Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (13)
- Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (124)
- Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg (4)

- Lobenstein (1)
- Lobstein (1)
- Loebenstein (1)

- Levenston (2)
- Leveson of Stone (6)

For another possible Levi variant, see Livingstone.

🏷 Levi Semitic spook name · name