Meaning of Arabella
ronale7
ronale7 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 22 11:39:29 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 44332
I'm ashamed of delurking about the subject of Arabella's name, but I
have a resource apparently no one else has. It's a 60-year old
pamphlet (yes, I typed that right--it's copyright 1942) put out by
the Ethyl Corporation and titled "What's in a Name?"
According to this pamphlet, the name Arabella has two derivations.
First, there's the Latin one: fair altar; sweet refuge. (Should we
count that as one or two? I'm treating it as one.) And then it
gives a source I haven't seen in the posts: the Teutonic one which
means Eagle heroine.
This derivation leaves me confused. Can anyone add to this Teutonic
bit?
--Ronale7
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