「ジョイス（Joyce）」は聖書には登場しない — そして本来「喜び」を意味するものではなかった

Joyce is not in the Bible, and it does not originally mean joy. It comes from the name of a Breton saint, and the joy arrived later by accident of sound. Where the name comes from Behind Joyce stands Judoc — Iodoc in Latin, Josse in French — a seventh-century Breton nobleman who gave up a claim to rule and became a hermit. The name is Breton, built on an element meaning lord. Norman settlers brought it to England, where…