"Form of Gretel"
The name Grethel is commonly a female name from the "German" origin.
Grethel is a spelling of Gretel, the German short form of Margarete (Margaret), built from Grete with the diminutive suffix -el. The -th- spelling appears in English-language records and in some English printings of the Grimms' tale of Hansel and Gretel, which the brothers collected for Kinder- und Hausmarchen in 1812. It carries the same derivation as Gretel, with no separate meaning of its own.
Gretel means "Pearl; Daisy. The Slavic, Swedish, German form of Margaret.".
The pronunciation of Grethel is GRETH-uhl.
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