The letter Œ/œ, or the rune ᛟ.
"The old botanical text listed ethel as an alternative name for the salt-tolerant tamarisk tree found along the riverbank."
Alternative form of athel (“tamarisk”).
A female given name from Old English, popular at the turn of the 20th century.
"At the family reunion, my grandmother introduced me to her great-aunt Ethel, whose vintage photograph showed a woman very much in style for the early 1900s."