elle – Latvian noun declension

Noun: elle
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	elle
Accusative	elli
Genitive	elles
Dative	ellei
Instrumental	elli
Locative	ellē
Vocative	elle

Plural

Nominative	elles
Accusative	elles
Genitive	eļļu
Dative	ellēm
Instrumental	ellēm
Locative	ellēs
Vocative	elles

Sample Sentences

nonākt ellē (to end up in hell)
elles krāsns (the furnace of hell)
elles mocības (the torments of hell)
elles karstums (infernal heat)
elles troksnis (infernal noise)
elles darbs (infernal, terrible, toughwork)
elles mokas (infernal, horrible suffering)

Nouns inflected like elle

lelle, celle, zaļumu balle, nulle, zaļumballe, elle,

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch elle or borrowed from Middle Low German helle (compare German Hölle, English hell). It is mentioned already in 16th-century literature and 17th-century dictionaries. See: German Nouns 'Hölle', English Nouns 'hell'.