Etymograph

English

Iseult

Iseult may come from Proto-Brythonic *Adsiltia ‘she who is gazed upon’.

  1. Proto-Brythonicc. 100 BCE–500 CE*Adsiltia‘she who is gazed upon’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1988Iseult

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Brythonicc. 100 BCE–500 CE*Adsiltia‘she who is gazed upon’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1988Iseult

Earliest quotation: 1988, John Brady, A Stone of the Heart: “Just as he finished, the daughter came in, Iseult.…”

The story

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.uncertain The source flags this step as uncertain. Otherwise from Germanic, equivalent to Old High German is (‘ice’) + hiltja (‘battle’) (from Proto-West Germanic *hildi).

Every English word from Proto-Brythonic *Adsiltia

Today it means

name A female given name from the Germanic languages.

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