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[Opinions] Re: Isabeau (m)
by scholasticastewart
1/25/2008, 8:40 PM
in reply to a message by elysa
Isabeau is nice, and is probably better on a male than a female due to the fact that beau is the masculine form of the French word for "beautiful, handsome" that belle (as in Isabelle) is a form of. I like it. It's a very unique name yet it's uniqueness is in the fact that it is not in fact trying at all to be unique.
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- Lizzie_Jay (nsi) (guest)   +5
1/25/2008, 9:48 PM
That's my problem with it.Beau is masculine.
There's a reason it's IsaBELLE.
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- raindancing   +4
1/26/2008, 10:41 AM
The ending isnt Beau its eau
Isab-elle Isab-eau
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- Lizzie_Jay (nsi) (guest)   +3
1/26/2008, 3:26 PM
What a silly thing to say.Belle means beautiful (feminine)
Beau means the same thing in masculine.By breaking up the syllables differently you can't change the meaning of the name.
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- Chrisell
1/27/2008, 8:52 PM
That was apallingly rudeDon't try to defend your ignorance by calling other people 'silly'. -eau is an old-fashioned ending from the mediaeval period, and has nothing to do with 'beau'. This has been discussed repeatedly on the facts board; if you'd bothered to search you would have found that out. Isabeau is 100% feminine and it would be extremely ignorant to use it on a boy just because it bears a superficial resemblance to 'beau'.
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- Isla
1/27/2008, 3:14 AM
She didn't pull it out of her buttOr 'break up the syllables' in any way. It's just a fact--the endings are -elle and -eau in this case.
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