Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A female given name. · A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, Gabriella, and Daniella. · A town in Uva Province, Sri Lanka. · An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
A 19th-century shortening of Eleanor or Ellen, later also used for any name ending in -ella, such as Gabriella or Daniella. Similar abbreviations have been formed independently in many European languages, for any name containing the syllable -el-, e.g. Elisabeth.
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