Alis

Alis

1. plural of Ali

• SAIL, Lasi, LISA, Lias, lias, sial, Isla, sail, Lais, ails, SiAl, LIAs, lais, Ilsa, Lisa

Derived from Spanish Alicia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalis/ [ˈʔa.lɪs]
• Rhymes: -alis
• Syllabification: A‧lis

Alis (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜲᜰ᜴)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alice

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 26

Alis

1. Alice
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     That Iankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis, / And I my-self, in-to the feldes wente.

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• Alys

From Old French Alys, Alice, from Old High German Adalheidis, from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”) + *haiduz (“character”).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈalɨ̞s/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈalɪs/
• Rhymes: -alɨ̞s

Alis f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alice

• malws Alis (“vervain mallow”)

Heini Gruffudd (2010) Enwau Cymraeg i Blant / Welsh Names for Children‎^[1], Y Lolfa, →ISBN, page 13