Emanuela

Emanuela begins in the Hebrew Immanuel, built from immanu, 'with us,' and El, 'God.' The phrase belongs to the Book of Isaiah, where a promised child stands as a sign, and it returns in the Gospel of Matthew. The name states a full sentence. God is with us.

Emanuela is the feminine form. Beside it stand the variants Emanuel and the Italian Emanuele, which a boy carries instead. On a Polish class register the name reads as a Hebrew declaration in Polish spelling, seated among saints from Rome and Greece.

Its short meaning has stayed close to that first grammar, since the word was a statement of presence before it named anyone. Polish calendars mark her imieniny on the twenty-sixth of March. A girl called Emanuela wears that old assurance as bóg z nami.