Editing Alsace (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Alsace'' can be traced to the [[Old High German]] {{lang|goh|Ali-saz}} or ''Elisaz'', meaning "foreign domain".<ref>{{cite book |last=Bostock |first=John Knight |title=A Handbook on Old High German Literature |year=1976 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-815392-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookonoldhig00bost |url-access=registration |edition=2nd |author2=Kenneth Charles King |author3=D. R. McLintock |editor=Kenneth Charles King, D. R. McLintock |page=[https://archive.org/details/handbookonoldhig00bost/page/20 20]}}</ref> An alternative explanation is from a [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] ''Ell-sass'', meaning "seated on the [[Ill (France)|Ill]]",<ref>Roland Kaltenbach: ''Le guide de l’Alsace'', La Manufacture 1992, {{ISBN|2-7377-0308-5}}, page 36</ref> a river in Alsace.