Means "far-roaming" from Greek εὐρύς (eurys) "wide, broad" and ἄλη (ale) "wandering, roaming" (from the verb ἀλάομαι (alaomai) "to wander"). In Greek myth she was one of the Gorgons, a sister of Medusa and Stheno; while she and Stheno were immortal, Medusa was not.