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(in ‘greek mythology’, ella (greek: Ἕλλα) was the daughter of ‘athamas’ and ‘nephele’)
(the name may be a cognate with ‘hellas’ (greek: Ἑλλάς), the greek name for ‘greece’, which said to have been originally the name of the region round “dodona”)
(another source indicates the name is a ‘norman’ version of the germanic short name Alia, which was short for a variety of german names with the element ali-, meaning “other”)
(it is also a common short name for names starting with El-, such as ‘eleanor’, ‘elizabeth’, ‘elle’, ‘ellen’, ‘ellie’, or ‘eloise’)
the hebrew ‘ella’ (אלה) has 2 meanings:
(a tree indigenous to the middle east from the ‘pistachio’ family (pistacia terebinthus))
(as written in ‘isaiah 6-13’: “and though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. but as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land”)
(“ella” means “goddess” in “modern hebrew”)
(“ella” became used again during the victorian era in english-speaking countries and has been revived in the last decade, becoming a popular given name for baby girls born in ‘australia’, ‘canada’, ‘ireland’, ‘new zealand’, the ‘united kingdom’, the ‘united states’, and other english-speaking countries, as well as in “israel”)
(1 well-known bearer of the name was singer ‘ella fitzgerald’)
(grand duchess “elizabeth feodorovna” of ‘russia’, a russian ‘grand duchess’ and ‘saint’ of the ‘russian orthodox church’, was commonly known as “ella”)
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