Alois

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Alois (also Aloys , Aloisius , Aloysius ) is a male given name . In Germany, it is mainly used in southern Germany. The feminine version of the name is Aloisia .

Origin and meaning of the name

Sometimes the name is explained as Alwis , "very wise", but this derivation is "unproven". In fact, it is a variant of Aloysius, a Latinized form of a Provencal variant of Ludwig . Saint Aloisius von Gonzaga was born as Ludovico, he was called Luigi or Alvise.

Another evidence may be the accord between the Orsini, Vitelli and Cesare Borgia of October 29, 1502: Louis XII. of France is referred to as Aluisi . The king himself signed in other sources of the time than Loys , but is usually referred to as Luigi by contemporary Italians . The intervowel g , particularly in older Italian, corresponds in turn to an intervowel s in other Romance varieties, so it again suggests Aloy s ius from Lui g i (for comparison see parti g iano and Parti s an , parmi g iano and Parmesan, etc. .) However, it is precisely the intervowel g that is considered Provencalism in Italian.

variants

  • Alawies ( Upper Swabian )
  • Wiese ( Upper Swabian short form )
  • Alajos ( Hungarian )
  • Aloisius ( Latin )
  • Aloisio, also Luigi ( Italian )
  • Alojs ( Sorbian )
  • Alojz ( Slovenian )
  • Alojzy ( Polish )
  • Aluis ( Romansh )
  • Alvise ( Venetian )
  • Alvisi, Aloys, Lois, Luis
  • Lojzo ( Slovak )

Bavarian name forms

This name, which is very widespread in Bavarian , is usually abbreviated to Lois (pronounced Loez very quickly ) - in the belittling form also Alisi and Loisl - but the latter is often confused with Louis (French for Ludwig ) in High German .

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Natural people

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See also

Web links

Commons : Alois (given name)  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Alois  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historical German First Name Book , Berlin 1996, p. 96