elri

Etymology

From Old Norse elri, ǫlr (compare Icelandic elri, Norwegian older, Danish el, Swedish al), from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō (compare English alder), variant of *alizō, *alisō (compare Dutch els, German Erle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlɹɪ/

Noun

elri n (genitive singular elris, plural elri)

1. alder

Etymology

From Old Norse elri, ǫlr (compare Faroese elri, Norwegian older, Danish el, Swedish al), from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō (compare English alder), variant of *alizō, *alisō (compare Dutch els, German Erle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlrɪ/

Noun

elri n (genitive singular elris, no plural)

1. alder

   Synonym: ölur

Alternative forms

• elrir
• órir, ǫlr

Etymology

From some variant of Proto-Germanic *alizō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis- (“alder”).

Noun

elri n (genitive elris)

1. alder (tree)

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “elri”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive