Eloise

From the Old French name Héloïse, which was probably from the Germanic name Helewidis, composed of the elements heil meaning "healthy, whole" and wit meaning "wide" [1] [2] [3] . It is sometimes associated with the Greek word helios) meaning "sun" or the name Louise , though there is no etymological connection. This name was borne by the 12th-century French scholar and philosopher Héloïse. Secretly marrying the theologian Peter Abelard at a young age, she became a nun (and eventually an abbess) after Abelard was violently castrated by order of her uncle Fulbert.There was a medieval English form of this name, Helewis, though it died out after the 13th century. In the 19th century it was revived in the English-speaking world in the form Eloise.

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1. Förstemann, Ernst. Altdeutsches Namenbuch. Bonn, 1900, page 729.
2. Köbler, Gerhard. Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, entry heil, available from https://www.koeblergerhard.de/ahdwbhin.html.
3. Köbler, Gerhard. Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, entry wīt, available from https://www.koeblergerhard.de/ahdwbhin.html.

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