My grandmother used to call all of her kids and grandkids “Schekerle“. I am not sure how to spell it exactly. Is there a meaning in Hebrew or Yiddish for Schekerle or Sheker-le? I know that a -le at the end of something can mean “little” and it’s something endearing.
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I don't know the answer to your question, but hopefully one of the other members will chime in.
I've never heard of schekerle used of people. The word sheker means "lie." I don't think it makes sense for her to endearingly call children "little lies." I don't know where the expression would come from.
Schekerle or schäkerle is how I remember it, my first language is German. But what if she said
khek-ele?
khek
–> Yiddish חק (khek, “bosom, womb”), from Hebrew חֵיק (khék, “bosom”)
[source:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sch%C3%A4kern]
-ele
–> In Yiddish the primary diminutive is -l or -ele in singular, and -lekh or -elekh in plural, sometimes involving a vowel trade in the root. [source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_di...ge#Yiddish]
So it would be a diminutive form of bosom or womb. Would it make sense to anyone that a mother would call her children khekele?