Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An English surname originating as a patronymic from Elis, the Middle English form of Elijah. · A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic] and A male given name from Welsh, an anglicization of Elisedd. · A unisex given name transferred from the surname. · An unincorporated community in Stockton Township, Greene County, Indiana; named for politician William Ellis Niblack.
* As an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French form of Elias. Compare Elijah, Lias, Ely. Also sometimes from the Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth. * As a Welsh surname, shortened from the personal name Elisse, Elisedd, from the archaic elus (“benevolent, kind”).
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