Adelyn n'est pas dans la Bible — mais l'Écriture se soucie de l'endroit où un nom est écrit

Adelyn is not in the Bible. It is a modern respelling of Adeline, which is a diminutive of a Germanic word meaning noble. The respelling is the interesting part, and Scripture has more to say about written names than most people expect. What the name means Behind Adelyn stands adal, the Old German element meaning noble — the same root in Adelaide, Adela, Alice and Adeline. Adeline came through French as a diminutive, so the sense is something like “little…