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Élise, Elise, Elyse, Elyce or Elize is the shortened feminine French form of Elizabeth, coming originally from the Hebrew name אלישבע (אלי = My God שבע = oath) and meaning "My God is an oath" or "My God is abundance".
Kopitz presents the finding by the German organ scholar Johannes Quack that the letters that spell Elise can be decoded as the first three notes of the piece. Because an E ♭ is called an Es in German and is pronounced as "S", that makes E –(L)–(I)– S – E : E –(L)–(I)– E ♭ – E , which by enharmonic equivalents sounds the same ...
Isabella is a feminine given name, the Latinate and Italian form of Isabel, the Spanish form, Isabelle, the French form, and Isobel, the Scottish form of the name Elizabeth.
Eloise is a female given name, the English version of the French name Éloïse or Héloïse.It is of uncertain meaning but may be derived from the Old German name Helewidis, which meant "healthy" and "wide". [1]
Elisa is both a feminine and masculine given name.It is of Phoenician origin. According to legend, the first queen of Carthage was Elissa (also known as Dido).Another opinion is that it is a shortened form of Elisabeth, a variant of the Biblical name Elizabeth or that it is a shortened version of Elisha or Eliseus.
This set of names is a Spanish variant of the Hebrew name Elisheba through Latin and Greek represented in English and other European languages as Elisabeth. [2] [3] These names are derived from the Latin and Greek renderings of the Hebrew name based on both etymological and contextual evidence (the use of Isabel as a translation of the name of the mother of John the Baptist). [4]
The given name Lisa can be a short form of Elisabeth, Melissa or Elizabeth.In the United Kingdom, the name Lisa began to gain popularity during the 1960s, by 1974 it was the fifth most popular female name there, and a decade later it was the 14th most popular female name there.
After the release of Disney's Frozen at the end of 2013, in which a main character is named Elsa, the name became more popular in different countries across the world. In the Faroe Islands and Sweden the name was in the top 10 baby names before the film was released, and became the most popular name afterwards, in 2014 and 2015.