When Mabel Braschwitz was born in June 1891, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, her father, Henry Earnest Braschwitz, was 22 and her mother, Bertha Johanne Caroline Schutt, was 18. She died on 9 February 1910, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.
Originally a nickname from the Old French vocabulary word amabel, amable ‘lovely’ (akin to modern English amiable ‘friendly, good-humoured’). The initial vowel began to be lost as early as the 12th century (the same woman is referred to as both Mabilia and Amabilia in a document of 1185 ), but a short vowel in the resulting first syllable was standard, giving a rhyme with babble, until the 19th century, when people began to pronounce the name to rhyme with table.
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