Comments on: Yea or Nay: Belsante http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/23/yea-or-nay-belsante/ Where Every Name Has a Story Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:48:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Catherine http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/23/yea-or-nay-belsante/#comment-24302 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:53:11 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3716#comment-24302 Ysabel Marianne – both medieval French but still sounding modern (the -ot is a diminutive used widely in medieval French names so you could still call her Ysabelot in the family as a petname).

Not that I spend way too many hours reading s-gabriel.org or anything (a medieval name junkies best friend)

]]> By: Catherine http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/23/yea-or-nay-belsante/#comment-24301 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:49:24 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3716#comment-24301 I started doing medieval and Renaissance reenactment in my mid teens and am still fairly active so a lot of the names mentioned so far I know at least one of :) (Elizabeth is also my middle name) I would pronounce it Belsante BEL-sant-ay (it almost looks like medieval French for “good health” sante is health)

]]> By: i.heart.nerds http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/23/yea-or-nay-belsante/#comment-24218 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:25:12 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3716#comment-24218 I like that about relatively unknown names… Pronounce them how you like because no one is alive who knows for sure :)

]]> By: appellationmountain http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/23/yea-or-nay-belsante/#comment-24214 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:55:20 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3716#comment-24214 It is really growing on me – though I’m saying it more like bell SAHNT.

]]> By: i.heart.nerds http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/23/yea-or-nay-belsante/#comment-24211 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:06:39 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3716#comment-24211 in my head I am pronouncing this Bell-sahn-tay. I like it!!!

]]> By: Baby Name of the Day: Elspeth | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/23/yea-or-nay-belsante/#comment-24196 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:04:46 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3716#comment-24196 [...] all over the world.  Some of her versions are obscure – like the medieval Isabeau or Belsante.  Others are common in their place, but quite rare elsewhere in the [...]

]]> By: appellationmountain http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/23/yea-or-nay-belsante/#comment-8198 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:33:56 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3716#comment-8198 Ysabelot is lovely – but quite a bit to wear!

]]> By: Bewildertrix http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/23/yea-or-nay-belsante/#comment-8191 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:46:09 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3716#comment-8191 Ysabelot! I tried working that into a realistic combination once and failed miserably. I think it’s fab.

]]> By: Sebastiane http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/23/yea-or-nay-belsante/#comment-8182 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:23:45 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3716#comment-8182 OOoh, Sabelina and Ysabelot are both very pretty as well.

]]> By: appellationmountain http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/23/yea-or-nay-belsante/#comment-8178 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:31:56 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3716#comment-8178 Thank you, Bewildertrix – there she is: http://gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/England-Medieval/Biblical.htm, along with Sabelina and Ysabelot!

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