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Date: 2013-08-28 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chanaleh.livejournal.com
The widespread gossip-and-busybody connotation of the name Yenta may stem from its use in said comic strip, but the actual name is in common Yiddish usage much earlier, as a back-formation from Yentl, which itself was a borrowing of the Latinate "genteel" or gentle.
http://www.20000-names.com/female_yiddish_names.htm
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/pakn-treger/06-12/fortunes-yente
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