eel – English noun declension

English noun forms of eel

Noun: eel
Singulareel
Pluraleels

Sample Sentences

  • Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark. [1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:]
  • That Dennis is a right eel, he always seems to slip away from the scene at the right time.
  • His expression when incredulous. "Why would you think that?" He was a slippery little eel. [2003, Catherine Anderson, Only by Your Touch:]
  • Philosophers and literary critics from ancient times, along with social scientists, physicians, theologians, and biblical scholars more recently, have tried to get a tentative handle, if not a firm grasp, on this "slippery eel" of humor and laughter. [2004, F. Scott Spencer, Dancing Girls, Loose Ladies, and Women of the Cloth, page 26:]
  • John scowled after the dog. "Never fear, my lady. I shall get the sneaky, slippery eel yet." [2016, Jody Hedlund, Newton and Polly: A Novel of Amazing Grace, page 131:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English el (“eel”), from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl (“eel”), from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ål (“eel”), Faroese állur, álur (“eel”), Icelandic áll (“eel”). See: Middle English Nouns 'el', Dutch Nouns 'aal', German Nouns 'Aal', Faroese Nouns 'állur', Icelandic Nouns 'áll'.

Verbs referencing "eel"

German Nouns Aal.