Elsa

German Elsa, contraction of Elisabeth, occasionally used in English after its appearance in Wagner's opera Lohengrin (1847).

Elsa

1. A female given name.
   • 1988 Barbara Vine, The House of Stairs, Onyx(1990), →ISBN, page 35:

     A friend that I envied — it was the same friend who had benefited from admiring Cosette's jewelry, a girl whose name was Elsa and whom naturally we called Lioness —

• ELAS, LAEs, LEAs, SEAL, Sale, Salé, Seal, Sela, aels, ales, lase, leas, sale, seal

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛlza]
• Hyphenation: El‧sa

Elsa f

1. A female given name.

• Elsin

• Elsa in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Elsa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• lesy
• sely

Elsa f

1. A female given name

Matronymics

• son of Elsa: Elsuson
• daughter of Elsa: Elsudóttir

From German and Swedish Elsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelsɑ/, [ˈe̞ls̠ɑ]
• Hyphenation: El‧sa

Elsa

1. A female given name.
   • 1894 Teuvo Pakkala, Elsa, SKS (1995), →ISBN, page 11:

     Voisiko hänenkin tyttärelleen käydä noin, vaikka hän uskoisi Jumalaan, uskoisi niin vakavasti kuin on uskonut, että hän varjelee Elsan? Ei, se on mahdotonta!

   • 2014 Heidi Jaatinen, Kaksi viatonta päivää, Gummerus, →ISBN, pages 153-154:

     Ja hän melkein hymyili sille. Ja sai tietää, että tytöllä oli nimi: Elsa. Siro nimi puhumattomalle tytölle.

Medieval diminutive of Elisabeth.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔɛlza/

Elsa

1. A female given name.

From Latin Elsa.

Elsa ?

1. A river that flows in Tuscany

Contraction of Elisabetta or Elisa.

Elsa f

1. A female given name

From Elisabet.

Elsa

1. A female given name.

Elsa f

1. A female given name

Rare medieval contraction of Elisabet, also a variant Danish Else. First recorded in Sweden in 1422. Taken to general use in the 19th century through the influence of the identical German name.

Elsa c (genitive Elsas)

1. A female given name.

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 42 087 females with the given name Elsa living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.