Alys: meaning and origin

Girls' names

Name and meaning

Cornish form of Alice

Origin

From Old French Alys; its distant Germanic root has a sense ‘noble’, not a direct literal meaning of Alys.

How to pronounce it

AlysAudio pronunciation is not available in Cornish yet.

Used as the equivalent of: Alice

Naming equivalents do not always have the same origin.

Sources

Name definitions adapted from Wiktionary via Kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). CC BY-SA 4.0

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