Evelyn
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Etymology[edit]
Medieval English form of the Old French female name Aveline, diminutive of the Germanic root *avi-, of uncertain meaning, possibly “desired, wished for“ (compare Latin aveo (“to wish for”)), or aval “strength”. By folk etymology the name Eve is seen as a diminutive of the female given name. Doublet of Eileen. Also compare Ava.
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Evelyn
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- 1855, Robert Browning, Evelyn Hope:
- Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! / Sit and watch by her side an hour.
- 1980, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, Alfred A.Knopf, published 1981, →ISBN, page 179:
- "I don't wear flowers," Evelyn Lilith said, and tossed the unwanted chain into the air, spearing it before it fell with a pellet from her unerring Daisy air-pistol. Destroying flowers with a Daisy, she served notice that she was not to be manacled, not even by a necklace: she was our capricious, whirligig Lill-of-the-Hill. And also Eve. The Adam's-apple of my eye.
- A surname originating as a matronymic.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
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female given name
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Evelyn
- a female given name from English
Norwegian[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Evelyn
- a female given name from English
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