Etymograph

English

Isabelle

Isabelle comes from Old Spanish Isabel.

  1. Old Spanishc. 950–1500Isabel
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentIsabelle
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2008same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Old Spanishc. 950–1500Isabel
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentIsabelle
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2008same form

Earliest quotation: 2008, The Associated Press, French Victory in Ice Dance: “Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder of France won the…”

Today it means

name A female given name from French Isabelle, ultimately a variant of Elizabeth.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Spanish Isabel / Isabelle