My Mum has always been a wealth of information about a variety of subjects. Last night she mentioned she came across a baby name book in the library and looked up "Elysha". She informed us that the name is of Greek and Latin origin and has a very different meaning from what we thought. Apparently, the entry I found for the name was incorrect in stating "Elysha" is the feminine variant of "Elisha" .
Further investigation showed that "Elisha" is both the male and female spelling and can be pronounced Ee-lie-sha or Ell-ee-sha (the pronounciation we want).
Elisha means "The Lord is my salvation". Elysha means something completely different.
It means "one who was struck by lightening".
We had a pretty good laugh about it and even now I'm chuckling to myself especially given the fact that the odds of being struck by lightening and the odds of being born with all the heart defects our daughter has are about the same.
So we will be changing the spelling to one that fits with the meaning we want.
Ellisha is now the spelling we're going with. At least for now...
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