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English
Etymology
Old French, the name of the queen who fell in love with Tristan in medieval romance Tristan and Iseult, perhaps from Celtic, of uncertain meaning, possibly Proto-Brythonic *Adsiltia (“she who is gazed upon”); compare Welsh syllu and Irish súil.[1][2][3] Otherwise from Germanic, equivalent to Old High German is (“ice”) + hiltja (“battle”) (from Proto-West Germanic *hildi).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈsuːlt/, /ɪˈzuːlt/
Proper noun
Iseult
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
1988, John Brady, A Stone of the Heart, St Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 9:Just as he finished, the daughter came in, Iseult. A name out of the past, a darkly Celtic presence: jet-black hair, the same as Minogue had had, tall.
Translations
(Arthurian legend)
References
- ^ Jackson, Kenneth (1953) Language and History in Early Britain: a chronological survey of the Brittonic Languages, 1st to 12th c. A.D., Edinburgh: The University Press, →ISBN, page 709
- ^ Peter Berresford Ellis, Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature. W.B. Eerdmans Pub., June 27, 1996.
- ^ Rosemarie Lühr, Tristan im Kymrischen, p. 147, in: Xenja von Ertzdorff (ed.), Tristan und Isolt im Spätmittelalter. Vorträge eines interdisziplinären Symposiums vom 3. bis 8. Juni 1996 an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (= Chloe. Beihefte zum Daphnis, vol. 29). Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA (Rodopi) 1999, pp. 141–168.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Iseult f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Iseult
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