ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 3391
http://www.s-gabriel.org/3391
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27 Apr 2009
From: Julia Smith 

Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel!

You wrote back to us to make a few further enquiries regarding the 
report we wrote for you regarding <Juliote> and related names. [1]  You 
specifically asked about the pronunciation of the Occitan name <Juliota> 
and the form that a French byname (rather than an Occitan one) derived 
from a father named <Gervais de Bouillon> would take.  This is what we 
have found.

An Occitan <Juliota> would most likely have been pronounced 
\djoo-lee-OH-tah\, with a secondary stress on the first syllable (the 
\dj\ represents the sound in 'judge,' and \oo\ the sound in 'moon').

The byname <Gervaise> is found in northern France in 1399; it also 
appears as a given name in 1253 and 1324 as <Gervais>; we think either 
spelling would be appropriate for a French woman around 1300.  [2] 
<Juliote Gervaise> would be a lovely French name c. 1300.

I hope this letter has been useful. Please write us again if any part of 
it has been unclear or if you have other questions. I was assisted in 
researching and writing this letter by Ursula Georges, and Aryanhwy 
merch Catmael.

For the Academy,

Juliana de Luna
27 April 2009

References

[1] Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 3382
http://www.s-gabriel.org/3382

[2] Morlet, Marie-Therese, _Etude d'anthroponymie picarde, les noms de 
personne en Haute Picardie aux XIIIe, XIVe, XVe siecles_ (Amiens, Musee 
de Picardie, 1967), pp. 331, 370.