Allison staat niet in de Bijbel — Het betekent “van edele afkomst”

Allison is not in the Bible. It is a medieval diminutive of Alice — Aalis in Old French, a worn-down Adelais, itself shortened from the Germanic Adalheidis, from adal, noble, and heit, kind or sort. Of the noble kind. Which is a claim, dear friends, and Scripture is very interested in claims like that — mostly in who is entitled to make them. What does the name Allison mean? “Of noble kind,” by way of Alice. In medieval France and…