See elf on Wiktionary
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Ultimately probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”). 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K., “[Iune. Ægloga Sexta.] Glosse.”, in Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 25, recto:", "text": "[…] if theyr children at any time vvere frowarde and vvanton, they would ſay to them that the Guelfe or the Gibeline came. VVhich vvords novve from them (as many thinge els) be come into our vſage, and for Guelfes and Gibelines, we ſay Elfes & Goblins.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 433:", "text": "The man whom heauens haue ordaynd to bee / The ſpouſe of Britomart, is Arthegall: / He wonneth in the land of Fayeree, / Yet is no Fary borne, ne ſib at all / To Elfes, but ſprong of ſeed terreſtriall, / And whylome by falſe Faries ſtolne away, / Whyles yet in infant cradle he did crall; / Ne other to himſelfe is knowne this day, / But that he by an Elfe was gotten of a Fay.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: […] Iohn Danter for William Iones, […]:", "text": "Their Robbin-good-fellowes, Elfes, Fairies, Hobgoblins of our latter age, which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped Fawnes, Satyres, Dryades & Hamadryades, did most of their merry prankes in the Night.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:", "text": "Every elf, and fairy sprite, / Hop as light as bird from brier.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1649, ΕΙΚΩΝ Ἡ ΠΙΣΤΗ. Or, The Faithfull Pourtraicture of a Loyall Subject, in Vindication of ΕΙΚΏΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΉ. […], page 16:", "text": "[…] I had rather have a Child which my Wife ſhould bring me, though by another man, then to have a Changeling brought me by a company of Fairies, Elfs and Goblins: […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1657, Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and All the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles Thereof., 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Seile, […], page 131:", "text": "The quarrel ſpreading into parties, called the Guelfs and the Gibellines, became at laſt the wonder and amazement of all good people: inſomuch as ſome are of opinion, that the fiction of the Elfs and Goblins, wherewith we uſe to fright young children, was derived from hence.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1678, The Shepherds Calendar: Containing Twelve Æglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Months. […], London: […] Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, […], page 26:", "text": "The opinion of Fairies and Elfs is very old, and yet ſticketh very religiously in the minds of ſome. But to root that rank opinion of Elfs out of mens hearts, the truth is, that there be no ſuch things, nor yet the ſhadows of the things, but only by a ſort of bald Friers and knaviſh ſhavelings ſo faigned; […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "a. 1690, William Cleland, A Collection of Several Poems and Verses, Composed upon Various Occasions, published 1697, page 59:", "text": "For there and ſeveral other places / About mill dams and green brae faces, / Both Elrich, Elfs and Brownies ſtayed, / And Green gown’d Farries daunc’d and played; […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bath Her Tale [by Geoffrey Chaucer]”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 479:", "text": "IN Days of Old when Arthur fill’d the Throne, / Whoſe Acts and Fame to Foreign Lands were blown; / The King of Elfs and little Fairy Queen / Gamboll’d on Heaths, and danc’d on ev’ry Green.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1717, Laurence Eusden, “Book IV. [The Transformation of the Theban Matrons.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 127:", "text": "This Juno heard; And ſhall ſuch Elfs, ſhe cry’d, / Diſpute my Juſtice, or my Pow’r deride?", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1760, Andrew Brice, “TUSCANY”, in The Grand Gazetteer; or, Topographic Dictionary, &c., page 1322, column 1:", "text": "[…]the Devaſtations under the Goths, Guelphs, and Gibelines [whence ſome would derive the Terms of Elfs (or Elves) or Fairies, and Goblins (or Hobgoblins) or Spectres, &c.] […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1802, J[ames] Sibbald, “Glossary; or An Explanation of Ancient Scottish Words”, in Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: To Which Is Added a Glossary, volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [F]or J. Sibbald, […], [b]y C. Stewart & Co. […]:", "text": "Farefolkis, fairies, elfs, or elves; […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1850, Matthew Stewart, Remarks on the Subject of Language, with Some Observations in the Form of Notes, Illustrative of the Information Which Language May Afford of the History and Opinions of Mankind, London: […] Richard and John Edward Taylor, […], for, […] the Author, page 14:", "text": "These Picts are the Clan Alpin, the Alps, or Elfs or Elves,—[…]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Elf-Child and the Minister”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 130:", "text": "Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion? Art thou a Christian child,—ha? Dost know thy catechism? Or art thou one of those naughty elfs or fairies, whom we thought to have left behind us, with other relics of Papistry, in merry old England?", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1852, William Bell, Shakespeare’s Puck, and His Folkslore, Illustrated from the Superstitions of All Nations, but More Especially from the Earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe and the Wends, London, page 58:", "text": "The next species of these airy nothings are the elfs, or elves; […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1868, S[abine] Baring-Gould, “The Piper of Hameln”, in Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, second series, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.; London: Rivingtons, page 173:", "text": "The Arbhus became in Teutonic mythology the Alben, Elben or Elfen, our Elfs, and in Scandinavian the Alfar.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1868, David Hume, William Cooke Stafford, The History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, volume I, London, New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, page 53, column 1:", "text": "The elfs or elves were inhabitants of the fields and groves, the progenitors of the fairies of the middle ages; […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1877, Sidney Lanier, “The Hard Times in Elfland. A Story of Christmas Eve.”, in [Mary Lanier], editor, Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1884, page 159:", "text": "Since you’ve been out, the news arrives / The Elfs’ Insurance Company’s gone.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1879, William Henderson, “Index”, in Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. […], London: […] [F]or the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co., […], page 364:", "text": "Eve, Danish legend of her concealing her unwashed children, from whom come elfs, trolls, &c.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1889 May, “[Literary Notices.] The Folk-Lore of Plants. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer. […]”, in Popular Science, page 128, column 1:", "text": "Much of fairy lore clusters around the so-called fairy rings, that is, the green circles in old pastures within which the elfs were supposed to dance at night by the light of the moon.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1903, Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell, “NAT, s.”, in edited by William Crooke, Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, London: John Murray, […], page 619, column 2:", "text": "NAT,[…]; a term applied to all spiritual beings, angels, elfs, demons, or what not, including the gods of the Hindus.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1917 November, Elizabeth Clendenning Ring, “Florence Earle Coates: Some Phases of Her Life and Poetry”, in The Book News Monthly, volume 36, page 109, column 1:", "text": "Elfs and fays, from their haunts in the mountains, whistle their eerie ballads above the gray roof of “Dove Cottage,” and dance their ghostly jigs on the huge hearthstone, among whose blazing logs the Fire God paints his immortal canvases, with colorings splendid beyond the dream of man.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2010, Heilan Yvette Grimes, The Norse Myths, Hollow Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 254:", "text": "Alfs [elfs]: Another name for the elfs or elves.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). 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"Danish elleve", "name": "cog" } ], "etymology_text": "From Middle Dutch ellef, elf, from Old Dutch *ellef, from Proto-Germanic *ainalif, a compound of *ainaz and *-lif. 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Compare German elf, West Frisian alve, English eleven, Danish elleve.", "forms": [ { "form": "elven", "tags": [ "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfje", "tags": [ "diminutive", "neuter" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "f", "2": "-ven", "3": "+" }, "expansion": "elf f (plural elven, diminutive elfje n)", "name": "nl-noun" } ], "hyphenation": [ "elf" ], "lang": "Dutch", "lang_code": "nl", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "the number eleven, or a representation thereof" ], "links": [ [ "eleven", "eleven" ] ], "tags": [ "feminine" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ɛl(ə)f/" }, { "audio": "Nl-elf.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg/Nl-elf.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ɛlf" } ], "word": "elf" } { "categories": [ "Dutch entries with incorrect language header", "Dutch lemmas", "Dutch masculine nouns", "Dutch nouns", "Dutch nouns with plural in -en", "Dutch terms borrowed from German", "Dutch terms derived from English", "Dutch terms derived from German", "Dutch terms derived from Old English", "Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic", "Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic", "Pages with 16 entries", "Pages with entries", "Rhymes:Dutch/ɛlf", "Rhymes:Dutch/ɛlf/1 syllable", "nl:Eleven", "nl:One" ], "derived": [ { "word": "boself" }, { "word": "elfenbank" }, { "word": "elfin" }, { "word": "kerstelf" }, { "word": "woudelf" } ], "descendants": [ { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "pap", "2": "èlfye", "bor": "1" }, "expansion": "→ Papiamentu: èlfye", "name": "desc" }, { "args": { "1": "from the diminutive" }, "expansion": "(from the diminutive)", "name": "q" } ], "text": "→ Papiamentu: èlfye (from the diminutive)" } ], "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "nl", "2": "de", "3": "Elf" }, "expansion": "German Elf", "name": "bor" }, { "args": { "1": "nl", "2": "en", "3": "elf" }, "expansion": "English elf", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "nl", "2": "ang", "3": "ælf" }, "expansion": "Old English ælf", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "nl", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*albi" }, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *albi", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "nl", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*albiz" }, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *albiz", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from German Elf, itself borrowed from English elf, from Old English ælf, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz. Displaced native alf, from the same Germanic source.", "forms": [ { "form": "elfen", "tags": [ "plural" ] }, { "form": "elven", "tags": [ "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfje", "tags": [ "diminutive", "neuter" ] }, { "form": "elve", "tags": [ "feminine" ] }, { "form": "elfin", "tags": [ "feminine" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "m", "2": "-en", "3": "+", "f": "elve", "f2": "elfin", "pl2": "-ven" }, "expansion": "elf m (plural elfen or elven, diminutive elfje n, feminine elve or elfin)", "name": "nl-noun" } ], "hyphenation": [ "elf" ], "lang": "Dutch", "lang_code": "nl", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "elf, brownie (small folkloric creature)" ], "links": [ [ "elf", "elf#English" ], [ "brownie", "brownie" ] ], "tags": [ "masculine" ] }, { "categories": [ "nl:Fantasy" ], "glosses": [ "elf (humanoid pointy-eared creature in fantasy)" ], "links": [ [ "fantasy", "fantasy" ], [ "elf", "elf#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(fantasy) elf (humanoid pointy-eared creature in fantasy)" ], "tags": [ "masculine" ], "topics": [ "fantasy" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ɛl(ə)f/" }, { "audio": "Nl-elf.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg/Nl-elf.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Nl-elf.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ɛlf" } ], "synonyms": [ { "sense": "mythical being", "word": "alf" } ], "word": "elf" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "nds-nl", "2": "nds", "3": "-" }, "expansion": "Low German", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "nds-nl", "2": "gml", "3": "elvene" }, "expansion": "Middle Low German elvene", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "nds-nl", "2": "osx", "3": "ellevan" }, "expansion": "Old Saxon ellevan", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "de", "2": "elf" }, "expansion": "German elf", "name": "cog" } ], "etymology_text": "From Low German, from Middle Low German elvene, from Old Saxon ellevan. Related to German elf.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "nds-nl", "2": "numeral" }, "expansion": "elf", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Dutch Low Saxon", "lang_code": "nds-nl", "pos": "num", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Dutch Low Saxon cardinal numbers", "Dutch Low Saxon entries with incorrect language header", "Dutch Low Saxon lemmas", "Dutch Low Saxon numerals", "Dutch Low Saxon terms derived from Low German", "Dutch Low Saxon terms derived from Middle Low German", "Dutch Low Saxon terms derived from Old Saxon", "Dutch Low Saxon terms inherited from Low German", "Dutch Low Saxon terms inherited from Middle Low German", "Dutch Low Saxon terms inherited from Old Saxon", "Pages with 16 entries", "Pages with entries" ], "glosses": [ "eleven (11)" ], "links": [ [ "eleven", "eleven" ] ] } ], "word": "elf" } { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English doublets", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English nouns with irregular 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"desc" } ], "text": "→ French: elfe" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "de", "2": "Elf", "3": "Elfe", "bor": "1" }, "expansion": "→ German: Elf, Elfe", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "→ German: Elf, Elfe" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "ja", "2": "エルフ", "bor": "1", "tr": "erufu" }, "expansion": "→ Japanese: エルフ (erufu)", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "→ Japanese: エルフ (erufu)" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "ko", "2": "엘프", "bor": "1" }, "expansion": "→ Korean: 엘프 (elpeu)", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "→ Korean: 엘프 (elpeu)" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "ru", "2": "эльф", "bor": "1" }, "expansion": "→ Russian: эльф (elʹf)", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "→ Russian: эльф (elʹf)" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "uk", "2": "ельф", "bor": "1" }, "expansion": "→ Ukrainian: ельф (elʹf)", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "→ Ukrainian: ельф (elʹf)" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "elf" }, "expansion": "Middle English elf", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "ielf" }, "expansion": "Old English ielf", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*albi" }, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *albi", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*albiz" }, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *albiz", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "*h₂elbʰós", "4": "", "5": "white" }, "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "alf", "3": "oaf" }, "expansion": "Doublet of alf and oaf", "name": "doublet" } ], "etymology_text": "From Middle English elf, from Old English ielf, ælf, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz. Ultimately probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”). Doublet of alf and oaf.", "forms": [ { "form": "elves", "tags": [ "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfs", "tags": [ "nonstandard", "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "elves", "2": "elfs", "pl2qual": "now nonstandard" }, "expansion": "elf (plural elves or (now nonstandard) elfs)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "hyponyms": [ { "word": "elfe" }, { "word": "elven" }, { "word": "wood elf" }, { "word": "wood-elf" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "elfin" }, { "word": "elven" }, { "word": "elvan" }, { "word": "elvish" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "en:Norse mythology" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1579, E. K., “[Iune. Ægloga Sexta.] Glosse.”, in Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 25, recto:", "text": "[…] if theyr children at any time vvere frowarde and vvanton, they would ſay to them that the Guelfe or the Gibeline came. VVhich vvords novve from them (as many thinge els) be come into our vſage, and for Guelfes and Gibelines, we ſay Elfes & Goblins.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 433:", "text": "The man whom heauens haue ordaynd to bee / The ſpouſe of Britomart, is Arthegall: / He wonneth in the land of Fayeree, / Yet is no Fary borne, ne ſib at all / To Elfes, but ſprong of ſeed terreſtriall, / And whylome by falſe Faries ſtolne away, / Whyles yet in infant cradle he did crall; / Ne other to himſelfe is knowne this day, / But that he by an Elfe was gotten of a Fay.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: […] Iohn Danter for William Iones, […]:", "text": "Their Robbin-good-fellowes, Elfes, Fairies, Hobgoblins of our latter age, which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped Fawnes, Satyres, Dryades & Hamadryades, did most of their merry prankes in the Night.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:", "text": "Every elf, and fairy sprite, / Hop as light as bird from brier.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1649, ΕΙΚΩΝ Ἡ ΠΙΣΤΗ. Or, The Faithfull Pourtraicture of a Loyall Subject, in Vindication of ΕΙΚΏΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΉ. […], page 16:", "text": "[…] I had rather have a Child which my Wife ſhould bring me, though by another man, then to have a Changeling brought me by a company of Fairies, Elfs and Goblins: […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1657, Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and All the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles Thereof., 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Seile, […], page 131:", "text": "The quarrel ſpreading into parties, called the Guelfs and the Gibellines, became at laſt the wonder and amazement of all good people: inſomuch as ſome are of opinion, that the fiction of the Elfs and Goblins, wherewith we uſe to fright young children, was derived from hence.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1678, The Shepherds Calendar: Containing Twelve Æglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Months. […], London: […] Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, […], page 26:", "text": "The opinion of Fairies and Elfs is very old, and yet ſticketh very religiously in the minds of ſome. But to root that rank opinion of Elfs out of mens hearts, the truth is, that there be no ſuch things, nor yet the ſhadows of the things, but only by a ſort of bald Friers and knaviſh ſhavelings ſo faigned; […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "a. 1690, William Cleland, A Collection of Several Poems and Verses, Composed upon Various Occasions, published 1697, page 59:", "text": "For there and ſeveral other places / About mill dams and green brae faces, / Both Elrich, Elfs and Brownies ſtayed, / And Green gown’d Farries daunc’d and played; […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bath Her Tale [by Geoffrey Chaucer]”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 479:", "text": "IN Days of Old when Arthur fill’d the Throne, / Whoſe Acts and Fame to Foreign Lands were blown; / The King of Elfs and little Fairy Queen / Gamboll’d on Heaths, and danc’d on ev’ry Green.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1717, Laurence Eusden, “Book IV. [The Transformation of the Theban Matrons.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 127:", "text": "This Juno heard; And ſhall ſuch Elfs, ſhe cry’d, / Diſpute my Juſtice, or my Pow’r deride?", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1760, Andrew Brice, “TUSCANY”, in The Grand Gazetteer; or, Topographic Dictionary, &c., page 1322, column 1:", "text": "[…]the Devaſtations under the Goths, Guelphs, and Gibelines [whence ſome would derive the Terms of Elfs (or Elves) or Fairies, and Goblins (or Hobgoblins) or Spectres, &c.] […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1802, J[ames] Sibbald, “Glossary; or An Explanation of Ancient Scottish Words”, in Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: To Which Is Added a Glossary, volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [F]or J. Sibbald, […], [b]y C. Stewart & Co. […]:", "text": "Farefolkis, fairies, elfs, or elves; […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1850, Matthew Stewart, Remarks on the Subject of Language, with Some Observations in the Form of Notes, Illustrative of the Information Which Language May Afford of the History and Opinions of Mankind, London: […] Richard and John Edward Taylor, […], for, […] the Author, page 14:", "text": "These Picts are the Clan Alpin, the Alps, or Elfs or Elves,—[…]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Elf-Child and the Minister”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 130:", "text": "Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion? Art thou a Christian child,—ha? Dost know thy catechism? Or art thou one of those naughty elfs or fairies, whom we thought to have left behind us, with other relics of Papistry, in merry old England?", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1852, William Bell, Shakespeare’s Puck, and His Folkslore, Illustrated from the Superstitions of All Nations, but More Especially from the Earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe and the Wends, London, page 58:", "text": "The next species of these airy nothings are the elfs, or elves; […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1868, S[abine] Baring-Gould, “The Piper of Hameln”, in Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, second series, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.; London: Rivingtons, page 173:", "text": "The Arbhus became in Teutonic mythology the Alben, Elben or Elfen, our Elfs, and in Scandinavian the Alfar.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1868, David Hume, William Cooke Stafford, The History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, volume I, London, New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, page 53, column 1:", "text": "The elfs or elves were inhabitants of the fields and groves, the progenitors of the fairies of the middle ages; […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1877, Sidney Lanier, “The Hard Times in Elfland. A Story of Christmas Eve.”, in [Mary Lanier], editor, Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1884, page 159:", "text": "Since you’ve been out, the news arrives / The Elfs’ Insurance Company’s gone.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1879, William Henderson, “Index”, in Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. […], London: […] [F]or the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co., […], page 364:", "text": "Eve, Danish legend of her concealing her unwashed children, from whom come elfs, trolls, &c.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1889 May, “[Literary Notices.] The Folk-Lore of Plants. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer. […]”, in Popular Science, page 128, column 1:", "text": "Much of fairy lore clusters around the so-called fairy rings, that is, the green circles in old pastures within which the elfs were supposed to dance at night by the light of the moon.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1903, Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell, “NAT, s.”, in edited by William Crooke, Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, London: John Murray, […], page 619, column 2:", "text": "NAT,[…]; a term applied to all spiritual beings, angels, elfs, demons, or what not, including the gods of the Hindus.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1917 November, Elizabeth Clendenning Ring, “Florence Earle Coates: Some Phases of Her Life and Poetry”, in The Book News Monthly, volume 36, page 109, column 1:", "text": "Elfs and fays, from their haunts in the mountains, whistle their eerie ballads above the gray roof of “Dove Cottage,” and dance their ghostly jigs on the huge hearthstone, among whose blazing logs the Fire God paints his immortal canvases, with colorings splendid beyond the dream of man.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2010, Heilan Yvette Grimes, The Norse Myths, Hollow Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 254:", "text": "Alfs [elfs]: Another name for the elfs or elves.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy." ], "links": [ [ "Norse", "Norse" ], [ "mythology", "mythology" ], [ "spirit", "spirit" ], [ "Álfheim", "Álfheim" ], [ "Elfland", "Elfland" ], [ "angel", "angel" ], [ "nymph", "nymph" ], [ "fairy", "fairy" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy." ], "tags": [ "Norse" ], "topics": [ "human-sciences", "mysticism", "mythology", "philosophy", "sciences" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1882 October 7, “The Life of George Cruikshank: in Two Epochs. By Blanchard Jerrold. […]”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 2867, London: […] John C. Francis, […], page 471, column 1:", "text": "We may add, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and imaginators of fairy-land, have shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281:", "text": "All the fairy tales of my childhood were conjured up before my startled imagination, and appeared to be realised in the forms which surrounded me; I saw the whole forest filled with trolls, elves, and sporting dwarfs.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves and orcs, especially in modern fantasy literature." ], "links": [ [ "race", "race" ], [ "mythical", "mythical" ], [ "supernatural", "supernatural" ], [ "being", "being" ], [ "human being", "human being" ], [ "magic", "magic" ], [ "spellcraft", "spellcraft" ], [ "clashing", "clashing" ], [ "dwarves", "dwarves" ], [ "orcs", "orcs" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "en:Fantasy" ], "glosses": [ "Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar)." ], "links": [ [ "fantasy", "fantasy" ], [ "álfar", "álfar" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar)." ], "topics": [ "fantasy" ] }, { "glosses": [ "A very diminutive person; a dwarf." ], "links": [ [ "diminutive", "diminutive" ], [ "dwarf", "dwarf" ], [ "Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary", "w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909" ], [ "G. & C. Merriam", "w:Merriam-Webster" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "South African English" ], "glosses": [ "The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)." ], "links": [ [ "bluefish", "bluefish" ], [ "Pomatomus saltatrix", "Pomatomus saltatrix#Translingual" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)." ], "tags": [ "South-Africa" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "enpr": "ĕlf" }, { "ipa": "/ɛlf/" }, { "audio": "En-us-elf.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/En-us-elf.ogg/En-us-elf.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/En-us-elf.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ɛlf" } ], "synonyms": [ { "english": "hostile", "sense": "supernatural creature", "word": "goblin" }, { "english": "small, mischievous", "sense": "supernatural creature", "word": "fairy" }, { "tags": [ "obsolete" ], "word": "elve" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "af", "lang": "Afrikaans", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "word": "elf" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "word": "精靈" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "jīnglíng", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "word": "精灵" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "álf" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "elver" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "word": "valohaltia" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "elfe" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "elfo" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "elfo" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "alfus" }, { "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "alv" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "elfo" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "alʹv", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "альв" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "elʹf", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "эльф" }, { "code": "scn", "lang": "Sicilian", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "erfu" }, { "code": "scn", "lang": "Sicilian", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "erfa" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "elfo" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "alv" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "älva" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "word": "alf" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "alʹv", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "альв" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "elʹf", "sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "ельф" }, { "code": "af", "lang": "Afrikaans", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "elf" }, { "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "ʔālf", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "آلْف" }, { "code": "bar", "lang": "Bavarian", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "Åip" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "elf", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "елф" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "elf" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "精靈" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "jīnglíng", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "精灵" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "elf" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "alf" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "elf" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "alf" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "elfo" }, { "code": "et", "lang": "Estonian", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "haldjas" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "haltia" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "tonttu" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "keiju" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "peikko" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "maahinen" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "elfe" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "lutin" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "farfadet" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "ouva" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "elpi", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "ელფი" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Elfe" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Elf" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Elb" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Elbe" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Alb" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Alp" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Elbin" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Elfe" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Elfin" }, { "code": "gmh", "lang": "Middle High German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "elbe" }, { "code": "gmh", "lang": "Middle High German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "alb" }, { "code": "gmh", "lang": "Middle High German", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "alp" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "xotikó", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "ξωτικό" }, { "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "elf", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "אלף" }, { "code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "dev", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "देव" }, { "code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "apsarā", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "अप्सरा" }, { "code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "elph", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "एल्फ" }, { "code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "elf", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "एल्फ़" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "manó" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "elf" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "tündér" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "tünde" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "álfur" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "lucharachán" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "ealbh" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "elfo" }, { "alt": "ようせい", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "yōsei", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "妖精" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "erufu", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "エルフ" }, { "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "elpeu", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "엘프" }, { "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "yojeong", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "word": "요정" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "alfus" }, { "code": "lv", "lang": "Latvian", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "elfs" }, { "code": "lv", "lang": "Latvian", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "elfa" }, { "code": "lt", "lang": "Lithuanian", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "elfas" }, { "code": "lt", "lang": "Lithuanian", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "elfė" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "vílenik", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "ви́леник" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "džúdže", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "џу́џе" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "elf", "sense": "mythical, supernatural being", 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"fantasy", "fantasy" ], [ "elf", "elf" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(fantasy) elf" ], "tags": [ "masculine" ], "topics": [ "fantasy" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ɛlf/" } ], "word": "elf" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "mt", "2": "ar", "3": "أَلْف" }, "expansion": "Arabic أَلْف (ʔalf)", "name": "inh" } ], "etymology_text": "From Arabic أَلْف (ʔalf).", "forms": [ { "form": "elfejn", "tags": [ "dual" ] }, { "form": "eluf", "tags": [ "plural" ] }, { "form": "elufijiet", "tags": [ "plural" ] }, { "form": "elef", "tags": [ "paucal" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "d": "elfejn", "g": "m", "g2": "f", "p": "eluf", "p2": "elufijiet", "pauc": "elef" }, "expansion": "elf m or f (dual elfejn, plural eluf or elufijiet, paucal elef)", "name": "mt-numeral" } ], "lang": "Maltese", "lang_code": "mt", "pos": "num", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Maltese cardinal numbers", "Maltese entries with incorrect language header", "Maltese lemmas", "Maltese numerals", "Maltese terms derived from Arabic", "Maltese terms inherited from Arabic", "Pages with 16 entries", "Pages with entries" ], "glosses": [ "thousand" ], "links": [ [ "thousand", "thousand" ] ], "tags": [ "feminine", "masculine" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ɛlf/" } ], "word": "elf" } { "categories": [ "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "Middle English lemmas", "Middle English nouns", "Middle English terms derived from Old English", "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic", "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European", "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic", "Middle English terms inherited from Old English", "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic", "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European", "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic", "Pages with 16 entries", "Pages with entries", "enm:Mythological creatures" ], "descendants": [ { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "elf" }, "expansion": "English: elf", "name": "desc" }, { "args": {}, "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)", "name": "see desc" } ], "text": "English: elf (see there for further descendants)" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "sco", "2": "elf" }, "expansion": "Scots: elf", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "Scots: elf" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "yol", "2": "elf" }, "expansion": "Yola: elf", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "Yola: elf" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "ang", "3": "elf" }, "expansion": "Old English elf", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*albi" }, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *albi", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*albiz" }, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *albiz", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "*h₂elbʰós", "4": "", "5": "white" }, "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”)", "name": "inh" } ], "etymology_text": "From Old English elf, Anglian form of ælf, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”).", "forms": [ { "form": "elves", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "nouns", "g": "", "g2": "", "g3": "", "head": "", "sort": "" }, "expansion": "elf", "name": "head" }, { "args": { "pl": "elves" }, "expansion": "elf (plural elves)", "name": "enm-noun" } ], "lang": "Middle English", "lang_code": "enm", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "elven" }, { "word": "elvyssh" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Middle English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "english": "She was so fair and beautiful; her elegance seemed like / An elf out of another world, or else an angel.", "ref": "c. 1450, Wars of Alexander, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, passus 24, line 5258:", "text": "Scho was so faire & so fresche · as faucon hire semed, / An elfe out of an-othire erde · or ellis an Aungell", "type": "quote" }, { "english": "He was taken by an elf; I saw it myself. / When the clock struck twelve, he was transfigured.", "ref": "c. 1450, “The Second Shepherds' Play”, in The Towneley Plays, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, line 616:", "text": "he was takyn with an elfe / I saw it myself / when the clok stroke twelf / was he forshapyn", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "elf, fairy" ], "links": [ [ "elf", "elf#English" ], [ "fairy", "fairy" ] ] }, { "glosses": [ "spirit, shade" ], "links": [ [ "spirit", "spirit" ], [ "shade", "shade" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ɛlf/" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "elfe" }, { "word": "helfe" } ], "word": "elf" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "pdc", "2": "gmw-rfr", "3": "-" }, "expansion": "Rhine Franconian", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "pdc", "2": "goh", "3": "einlif" }, "expansion": "Old High German einlif", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "de", "2": "elf" }, "expansion": "German elf", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "nl", "2": "elf" }, "expansion": "Dutch elf", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "eleven" }, "expansion": "English eleven", "name": "cog" } ], "etymology_text": "From Rhine Franconian, from Old High German einlif. Compare German elf, Dutch elf, English eleven.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "pdc", "2": "numeral" }, "expansion": "elf", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Pennsylvania German", "lang_code": "pdc", "pos": "num", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Pages with 16 entries", "Pages with entries", "Pennsylvania German cardinal numbers", "Pennsylvania German entries with incorrect language header", "Pennsylvania German lemmas", "Pennsylvania German numerals", "Pennsylvania German terms derived from Old High German", "Pennsylvania German terms derived from Rhine Franconian", "Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Old High German", "Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Rhine Franconian" ], "glosses": [ "eleven" ], "links": [ [ "eleven", "eleven" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈɛlf/" } ], "word": "elf" } { "derived": [ { "word": "elfi" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "pl", "2": "en", "3": "enm", "4": "ang", "5": "gmw-pro", "6": "gem-pro", "7": "ine-pro" }, "expansion": "", "name": "dercat" }, { "args": { "1": "pl", "2": "de", "3": "Elf" }, "expansion": "Borrowed from German Elf", "name": "bor+" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from German Elf.", "forms": [ { "form": "elfik", "tags": [ "diminutive" ] }, { "form": "no-table-tags", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "table-tags" ] }, { "form": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "inflection-template" ] }, { "form": "elf", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "nominative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "elfy", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "nominative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfa", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "genitive", "singular" ] }, { "form": "elfów", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "genitive", "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfowi", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "elfom", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfa", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "elfy", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfem", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "instrumental", "singular" ] }, { "form": "elfami", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "instrumental", "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfie", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "elfach", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfie", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "singular", "vocative" ] }, { "form": "elfy", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "plural", "vocative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "m-anml", "dim": "elfik" }, "expansion": "elf m animal (diminutive elfik)", "name": "pl-noun" } ], "hyphenation": [ "elf" ], "inflection_templates": [ { "args": {}, "name": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml" } ], "lang": "Polish", "lang_code": "pl", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Pages with 16 entries", "Pages with entries", "Polish 1-syllable words", "Polish animal nouns", "Polish entries with incorrect language header", "Polish lemmas", "Polish links with manual fragments", "Polish links with redundant alt parameters", "Polish links with redundant wikilinks", "Polish masculine nouns", "Polish nouns", "Polish terms borrowed from German", "Polish terms derived from English", "Polish terms derived from German", "Polish terms derived from Middle English", "Polish terms derived from Old English", "Polish terms derived from Proto-Germanic", "Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European", "Polish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic", "Polish terms derived from Tolkien's legendarium", "Polish terms with IPA pronunciation", "Polish terms with audio pronunciation", "Rhymes:Polish/ɛlf", "Rhymes:Polish/ɛlf/1 syllable", "pl:J. R. R. Tolkien", "pl:Mythological creatures" ], "glosses": [ "elf (mythical or fantasy creature)" ], "links": [ [ "elf", "elf#English" ] ], "tags": [ "animal-not-person", "masculine" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈɛlf/" }, { "rhymes": "-ɛlf" } ], "word": "elf" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "ro", "2": "fr", "3": "elfe" }, "expansion": "Borrowed from French elfe", "name": "bor+" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French elfe.", "forms": [ { "form": "elfi", "tags": [ "plural" ] }, { "form": "no-table-tags", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "table-tags" ] }, { "form": "ro-noun-m", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "inflection-template" ] }, { "form": "elf", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "indefinite", "nominative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "elful", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "definite", "nominative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "elfi", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "indefinite", "nominative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfii", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "definite", "nominative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "elf", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "error-unrecognized-form", "indefinite", "singular" ] }, { "form": "elfului", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "definite", "error-unrecognized-form", "singular" ] }, { "form": "elfi", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "error-unrecognized-form", "indefinite", "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfilor", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "definite", "error-unrecognized-form", "plural" ] }, { "form": "elfule", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "singular", "vocative" ] }, { "form": "elfilor", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "plural", "vocative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "m", "2": "elfi" }, "expansion": "elf m (plural elfi)", "name": "ro-noun" } ], "inflection_templates": [ { "args": { "g": "m", "gpd": "elfilor", "gpi": "elfi", "gsd": "elfului", "gsi": "elf", "n": "", "npd": "elfii", "npi": "elfi", "nsd": "elful", "nsi": "elf", "vp": "elfilor", "vs": "elfule", "vs2": "" }, "name": "ro-decl-noun" } ], "lang": "Romanian", "lang_code": "ro", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Pages with 16 entries", "Pages with entries", "Romanian countable nouns", "Romanian entries with incorrect language header", "Romanian lemmas", "Romanian masculine nouns", "Romanian nouns", "Romanian terms borrowed from French", "Romanian terms derived from French" ], "glosses": [ "elf" ], "links": [ [ "elf", "elf#English" ] ], "tags": [ "masculine" ] } ], "word": "elf" } { "forms": [ { "form": "no-table-tags", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "table-tags" ] }, { "form": "l", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "inflection-template" ] }, { "form": "elf", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "indefinite", "nominative", "singular" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "sv", "2": "nouns", "3": "", "g": "c", "g2": "", "head": "", "sort": "" }, "expansion": "elf c", "name": "head" }, { "args": { "1": "c" }, "expansion": "elf c", "name": "sv-noun" } ], "lang": "Swedish", "lang_code": "sv", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "älv" } ], "categories": [ "Pages with 16 entries", "Pages with entries", "Swedish common-gender nouns", "Swedish entries with incorrect language header", "Swedish lemmas", "Swedish nouns", "Swedish obsolete forms" ], "glosses": [ "Obsolete spelling of älv." ], "links": [ [ "älv", "älv#Swedish" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "common-gender", "obsolete" ] } ], "word": "elf" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "yol", "2": "enm", "3": "elf" }, "expansion": "Middle English elf", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "yol", "2": "ang", "3": "ielf" }, "expansion": "Old English ielf", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "yol", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*albi" }, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *albi", "name": "inh" } ], "etymology_text": "From Middle English elf, from Old English ielf, from Proto-West Germanic *albi.", "forms": [ { "form": "elvès", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "yol", "2": "noun", "3": "plural", "4": "elvès" }, "expansion": "elf (plural elvès)", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Yola", "lang_code": "yol", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Pages with 16 entries", "Pages with entries", "Yola entries with incorrect language header", "Yola lemmas", "Yola nouns", "Yola terms derived from Middle English", "Yola terms derived from Old English", "Yola terms derived from Proto-West Germanic", "Yola terms inherited from Middle English", "Yola terms inherited from Old English", "Yola terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic" ], "glosses": [ "fairy" ], "links": [ [ "fairy", "fairy" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ɛɫf/" } ], "word": "elf" }
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