Ysaye

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French Ysaie, Ysaias,[1] from Latin Īsāiās, from Ancient Greek Ἠσαΐας (Ēsaḯas), from the Biblical Hebrew יְשַׁעְיָהוּ (yəšaʿyā́hū).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌiːzaˈiː(ə)/[2]

Proper noun

Ysaye

  1. Isaiah (a book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh)
  2. (Abrahamism, biblical) Isaiah (a prophet, the author of the Book of Isaiah)

Descendants

  • English: Esay, Isaie, Isay (obsolete)

References

  1. ^ McKnight, G[eorge] H. (1904), “Scriptural Names in Early Middle English”, in Proceedings of the Modern Language Association‎[1], volume 19, number 2, New York: Modern Language Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 329.
  2. ^ Strandberg, Otto (1919), The rime-vowels of Cursor mundi; a phonological and etymological investigation‎[2], Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri-A.-B., →OCLC, § 324, page 156.
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