elri

== Faroese == === 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) alder ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== elrisviður ølur == Icelandic == === 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) alder Synonym: ölur ==== Declension ==== == Old Norse == === Alternative forms === elrir órir, ǫlr === Etymology === From some variant of Proto-Germanic *alizō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis- (“alder”). === Noun === elri n (genitive elris) alder (tree) ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: elri Faroese: elri === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “elri”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive