Noun: eland
| Singular | eland |
| Plural | eland; elands |
Sample Sentences
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As a matter of fact, however, I had never seen an eland in a wild state before. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
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You almost forget you're in Africa. But suddenly you remember when a big eland goes trudging off from beside the road. [1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:]
Nouns inflected like eland
seiyuu,
sensei,
senryu,
whaanau,
xianbing,
samlor,
salumi,
salmon,
sika deer,
shrimp,
shumai,
eastern moa,
Guarani-Kaiowá,
northern shrimp,
izakaya,
pūkeko,
autopaizuri,
yukata,
yueqin,
panzerotti, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans eland, from Dutch eland (“elk”), from Middle Dutch elant, from obsolete early modern German elend, from Middle High German elen, see German Elen for more. Doublet of elk. See: Dutch Nouns '
eland', German Nouns '
elend', German Nouns '
Elen'.