alfr

== Old Norse == === Alternative forms === álfr === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *albiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós. === Noun === alfr m elf ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== dǫkkalfar (“dark elves”) ljósalfar (“light elves”) svartalfar (“black elves”) Gandalfr (name of a dwarf) ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: álfur Faroese: álvur Norwegian Nynorsk: alv, elv; (dialectal) alg Norwegian Bokmål: alv, elv Old Swedish: ælf, ælva Swedish: älva; alf, alv (reborrowed from Old Norse) Danish: elver (now only poetic); → alf (learned) → Arabic: آلْف (ʔālf) → English: auf, oaf → Scottish Gaelic: ealbhar → Belarusian: альв (alʹv) → Russian: альв (alʹv) → Ukrainian: альв (alʹv) === Further reading === MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “alfr”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN