Isabelle is Elizabeth — en Elizabeth staat in de Bijbel

Isabelle is Elizabeth. The two names look unrelated and are the same name, and Elizabeth is in the Bible — six months pregnant, and the first person to recognise who Mary was carrying. How Isabelle comes from Elizabeth The chain runs through Spain and Provence. Elizabeth, in medieval Spanish and Occitan, lost its opening syllable and became Isabel — a normal enough change in speech, which then stuck in writing. Isabel, Isabella, Isabelle, Isobel and Ysabel are all the same…