Alison
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Etymology[edit]
From Old French Alison, brought to England by the Normans, diminutive of Aliz, equivalent to English Alice, from Old High German Adalhaid (“of noble kind”). Became Middle English Alisoun.
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Alison
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer; Nevill Coghill, transl., “Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977:
- He came up close and kneeling gently down
He said, "My love, my dearest Alison,
So help me God, I never again will hit
You, love; and if I did, you asked for it.
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female given name
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