Noun: els
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like els
godsbewijs,
sjmoes,
borrelglas,
provinciehuis,
vleermuis,
bootreis,
boothuis,
kleine barmsijs,
boelhuis,
schapenvlies,
bosmuis,
schildluis,
bejaardentehuis,
grachtenhuis,
maskergors,
kleine rietgans,
badhuis,
uurglas,
bakhuis,
schijthuis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch else, from Old Dutch *alisa, from Frankish *alisu, from Proto-Germanic *alisō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis-.
2. Compare German Erle, English alder, Danish el, Norwegian older, Icelandic elri. See: German Nouns '
Erle', English Nouns '
alder', Danish Nouns '
el', Icelandic Nouns '
elri'.
Verbs referencing "els"
Danish Nouns
el, Swedish Nouns
al, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
older, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
older, German Nouns
Erle, French Nouns
alise.
Translations