Effie
“Gittel frum Feige etc are German names period.”
Not quite they are Yiddish
“My father’s family Yemenite Jews used only hebrew names from the Tanach”
Mazel tov.
” with no diminutives needed and as chazal forbade such diminutives ”
chazal forbade no such thing. And in fact we find nicknames among Chazal:Abba Aruka for example, R’ Yochanaon Hasandler., R’ Akiva is refereed to as “koreach”. Admittedly these arent diminutives but they certainly are nicknames. It is hard to see how diminutives are worse than the above.
” the Yemenites do not give diminutives. There are plenty of Hebrew names for females there is no need for excuses for german names its just an excuse for assimilation that has no justification.”
Yes naming people gittel is a key to assimilation.
“Why are Ashkenazim so opposed to abandoning a language or even roots of such language that comes from a people who had very nearly destroyed them”
you do realize the biggest demise of Yiddish occurred through the Germans. I fail to see how assuring that said language is in fact completely destroyed is in any way a noble effort