Given name
Ailís
“noble”·“kind”·“type”
Ailís is a form of Alice. Alice’s older Germanic elements mean “noble” and “kind” or “type.” The connection with nobility belongs to the name’s linguistic roots.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ailís is a form of Alice. Alice’s older Germanic elements mean “noble” and “kind” or “type.” The connection with nobility belongs to the name’s linguistic roots.
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Where it comes from
Ailís is a form of Alice. Alice developed through Old French from Adalheidis, the Germanic name also behind Adelaide.
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How it developed
Ailís is a form of Alice. The shared background comes through Alice: The longer Adalheidis was greatly shortened before reaching its Old French form. Alice and Adelaide therefore share an older source, even though they became distinct names.
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The story
Ailís is a form of Alice. The history of Alice gives this family its wider story. Alice returned to wider use in the nineteenth century. Lewis Carroll’s two Alice stories gave it an enduring literary association; his heroine drew inspiration from Alice Liddell.
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Ailís’s family of names
Ailís shares a linguistic root with Alice. In Irish usage, Ailís has a conventional equivalent in the German form Adelheid. Ailís is a form of Alice.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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