"Elsa" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From German Elsa, contraction of Elisabeth, occasionally used in English after its appearance in Wagner's opera Lohengrin (1847).",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "Elsagate"
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          "word": "Elsanna"
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          "ref": "1988, Barbara Vine, The House of Stairs, Onyx, published 1990, →ISBN, page 35:",
          "text": "A friend that I envied — it was the same friend who had benefited from admiring Cosette's jewelry, a girl whose name was Elsa and whom naturally we called Lioness —",
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          "text": "Do you remember the wave of Elsas that arrived shortly after the release of Frozen at the end of 2013? It became one the fastest-climbing names of the following year before dropping back, and then had another (smaller) spike in 2019 when Frozen II came out.",
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        "A female given name from German or Hebrew."
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      "ipa": "/ˈɛlsə/"
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  "word": "Elsa"
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