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Dutch (Brabantic)
/ɛls/
noun
Definitions
- alder, tree of the genus Alnus
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch else inherited from Old Dutch *alisa inherited from Frankish *alisu, *aliʀu inherited from Proto-Germanic *alisō, *alizō inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis- (alder).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂élis-
Gloss
alder
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- alder English
- alderfly English
- aldern English
- aldership English
- alderwood English
- Erle German
- Erlkönig German
- elzenvoorn Dutch, Flemish
- voorn Dutch, Flemish
- alise French
- *h₂élis- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂élsnos Proto-Indo-European
- older Norwegian Bokmål
- *alisō, *alizō Proto-Germanic
- *alizō Proto-Germanic
- *alusō, *aluz Proto-Germanic
- al Swedish
- alfågel Swedish
- alförrädare Swedish
- older Norwegian Nynorsk
- alor Old English
- aller, alder Middle English
- elri Old Norse
- ǫlr Old Norse
- el Danish
- elkedel Danish
- alizo Esperanto
- elri Icelandic
- gráelri Icelandic
- else Middle Dutch
- erila Old High German
- elri Faroese
- halë Albanian
- *alisa Old Dutch
- al Old Swedish
- aller Scots
- *alisu, *aliʀu Frankish