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# Bernstein

🏷 Semitic pun spook name · name — by Gerry · Jul 2020 · 221 words

The spook name Bernstein uses the common spook name suffix Stein, which puns with hštnh for “disguised”. The “bern-” component may perhaps be a pun with baron, making the name a “disguised baron”. It may also be a pun with burnus, meaning “cloak of disguise”. (The title baron itself may be such a pun.)

The N of burnus doesn’t seem to be part of the presumed Gaulish root word. But many later forms in Greek, Aramaic and Arabic are suffixed with an N.

#### Latin, Greek, Aramaic, Arabic birrus, burnus, biron = hood, cloak, mantle

birrus : A birrus or birrus brittanicus was a rainproof, hooded woollen cloak (or simply a hood alone), characteristically worn in Britain and Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire and into the Middle Ages. — English (Wiki)

βίρρος ; βερρόν ; βειρον ; βίρρον birros; berron; beiron; birron : a birrus, a kind of cloak — Ancient Greek (LSJ.gr)

βίρρος bírrhos : type of cloak or mantle; Borrowed from Latin birrus, from Gaulish *birros, from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”). — Ancient Greek (Wikt)

בירון byrwn : toga, cloak; Apparently from Latin birrus, birrum through Greek βίρρον “a cloak to keep off rain”. — Aramaic (CAL)

burnoose : a thick hooded cloak worn by Berbers and Arabs in Northwest Africa; From Andalusian Arabic البرنس‎ (burnús, barnús), from Arabic بُرْنُس‎ (burnus, “burnoose”), from Ancient Greek βίρρος (bírrhos). — English (Wikt)

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