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Help[Facts] Re: Keile/Kayla/etc - Yiddish?
in reply to a message by Perrine
Kayla is a natural abbreviation of Michaela. However the spelling is indeed modern English, by analogy to words which only have word final y for normal i, and vowel-shifted a pronounced as e. Note in Michaela both the a and e are shifted up to e and i respectively.
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