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Elvis is a given name. It is an Anglicisation of the name of the Irish saint Ailbe of Emly.〔Iseabail Macleod and Terry Freedman, ''The Wordsworth Dictionary of First Names: A Concise and Useful Guide to the Origins and Meanings of Over 2000 Names'' (Ware: Wordsworth, 1995), p. 68; Leslie Dunkling and William Gosling, ''Everyman's Dictionary of First Names'', 3rd edn (London: Dent, 1991), pp. 82-83.〕 The earlier meaning of ''Ailbe'' is uncertain; it may have been understood in the Middle Ages to derive from Irish ''ail'', 'rock',〔S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher. ''The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain'', 4 vols (London: Clark for the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1907-13), I pp. 129-30, accessed from https://archive.org/details/livesofbritishsa01bariuoft 24 November 2010.〕 but this is unlikely to have been its historical meaning. In internet sources, the name is widely claimed to derive from Old English ''Eall-wīs'', meaning "all-wise", but the development of ''w'' > ''v'' would be irregular and the name is not, in any case, attested in Anglo-Saxon sources;〔Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. 2000–. Available at http://www.pase.ac.uk (accessed 24 November 2010).〕 it is possible that this claim is inspired by the existence of the Old Norse mythological name Alvíss.〔Cf. (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Re: Etymology of "Elvis" ) 〕 Other alternative etymologies have been proposed for the name, including that it is derived from the surname ''Elwes'', and that it is related to the name ''Alwyn''. ==Usage== Most commonly, it refers to American singer Elvis Presley (1935–1977). It may also be the first name of people who were born before Presley became a household name, as in the case of the former U.S. administrator Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr. (1916–1998, born the same year as Elvis Presley's father, Vernon Elvis Presley),〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Elvis Presley roots in Scotland ) 〕 but in most cases it refers to those who either took the name themselves, as was the case with the UK/born singer and songwriter Elvis Costello, or were given the name by their parents as a tribute to Presley. According to a recent study by the UK-based People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, the name Elvis ranks eight in the top ten celebrity names chosen for a pet dog in Britain.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elvis (name)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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