Iseult
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Etymology
Old French, the name of the queen who fell in love with Tristan in medieval romance Tristan and Iseult; possibly from Celtic, of uncertain meaning, or from Germanic, equivalent to Old High German is (“ice”) + hiltja (“battle”).
Proper noun
Iseult
- A female given name.
- 1988 John Brady, A Stone of the Heart, St Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 9:
- Just as he finished, the daughter came in, Iseult. A name out of the past, a darkly Celtic presence: jet-black hair, the same as Minogue had had, tall.
- 1988 John Brady, A Stone of the Heart, St Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 9:
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