ålder
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- age; how old something or someone is
- an age, an era; a particular time period
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish alder inherited from Old Norse aldr inherited from Proto-Germanic *aldrą (life, age) derived from Proto-Indo-European *al- (all, burn, grow, other, beyond, white, shiny, light, shine).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*al-
Gloss
all, burn, grow, other, beyond, white, shiny, light, shine
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
光, 明
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *al- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European
- alder Norwegian Bokmål
- aldring Norwegian Bokmål
- *alaną Proto-Germanic
- *aldrą Proto-Germanic
- *ali- Proto-Germanic
- *aljaną Proto-Germanic
- *aljô Proto-Germanic
- *allaz Proto-Germanic
- all Swedish
- grupp Swedish
- medelålder Swedish
- tid Swedish
- tidsålder Swedish
- ålderdom Swedish
- ålderdomlig Swedish
- åldersgrupp Swedish
- alder Norwegian Nynorsk
- aldr Old Norse
- aldraðr Old Norse
- aldrœnn Old Norse
- allr Old Norse
- aldur Icelandic
- altar Old High German
- aldur Faroese
- 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍂𐍃 Gothic
- alder Old Dutch
- aldar Old Saxon
- alder Old Swedish
- alder Old Frisian
- āl- Tocharian B
- aldær Old Danish
- ollus Old Latin
- āl- Tocharian A
- *alu-ā- bat-pro