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iseult
Iseult (name) means a female given name that originates from the Germanic languages.
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A female given name that originates from the Germanic languages.
"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."
— John Brady, A Stone of the Heart (1988)
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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. Otherwise from Germanic, equivalent to Old High German is (“ice”) + hiltja (“battle”) (from Proto-West Germanic *hildi).
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"iseult" (name) means a female given name that originates from the Germanic languages.
