Noun: eln
Gender: f
Nominative
| Singular | eln |
| Plural | elna; elne |
Accusative
| Singular | elne |
| Plural | elna; elne |
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
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...⁊ sē weall wæs XX fōta þicce, ⁊ XL elna hēah... (...and the wall was twenty feet thick, and forty ells tall...)
Nouns inflected like eln
hwistlung,
serfis,
beofung,
ypping,
leornung,
syfling,
fyrding,
herebeorg,
hlacerung,
hæftnung,
setlung,
delfing,
feldwyrt,
cnyssung,
feltwyrt,
predicung,
samnung,
bisgung,
feormung,
brytsen, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *alinu, whence also Old High German elina, Old Norse öln. Cognate with Latin ulna. See: Latin Nouns '
ulna'.
Verbs referencing "eln"
English Nouns
ell, French Nouns
aune, Middle English Nouns
elne.
Translations