Alyson 不在圣经中——而且其中的 -son 并非父名后缀

Alyson is not in the Bible. And the spelling misleads: the “-son” is not a patronymic. Nobody was ever the son of Aly. What the name actually is Alyson is a spelling of Alison, which is Alice plus the French diminutive ending -on — the same ending in Marion, and a way of saying “little Alice.” Alice comes through Old French Adelais from the Germanic Adalheidis, built on adal, noble, and heid, kind or sort. So the chain is: noble…