Evelyn
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- //ˈɛvəlɪn//
- //ˈiːvlɪn//
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
nome proprio
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A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! / Sit and watch by her side an hour.
"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.
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A surname originating as a matronymic.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
Evelyn Waugh
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A place name: A rural locality in Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia.
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A place name: A community in Middlesex Centre municipality, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
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A place name: A locality in Munising Township, Alger County, Michigan, United States.
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A place name: An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Texas, United States.
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A place name: A former unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia, United States.
Etimologia
From Middle English forms of the Old French female name Aveline, diminutive of the Germanic root *avi-, of uncertain meaning, possibly “desired, wished for“ (compare Latin avēre, "to wish for") or aval “strength”. By folk etymology also misunderstood as a diminutive of the feminine given name Eve, q.v. Doublet of Eileen. Also compare Ava.
Evelyn · A female given name from the Germanic languages.
even · Flat and level.Even · A Tungusic language spoken by the Evens in Siberia and the…evening · The time of day between afternoon and night.