alder

See also Alder, and ålder

English

Wikipedia

Female (left) and male (right) catkins in the genital course?

Etymology

Middle English alder, aller, from Old English alor, from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō (compare Swedish al, East Frisian ällerboom), variant of *alizō, *alisō (compare Dutch els, German Erle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisos (compare Hittite alanza(n), Latin alnus, Latvian àlksnis, Polish olcha, Albanian halë 'black pine', Ancient Macedonian (Hesychius) άλιχα (álicha, “white poplar”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: [ˈɔːldə]
• (US) IPA: [ˈɔldɚ]

Noun

alder (plural alders)

1. Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.

Related terms

Andean alder black alder Caucasian alder common alder Formosan alder green alder

grey alder hazel alder Himalayan alder Italian alder Japanese alder Mexican alder

Nepalese alder oriental alder red alder seaside alder white alder

Translations

any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus

• Armenian: լաստենի (hy) (lasteni) 
• Aromanian: anin (rup), arin (rup)
• Bashkir: ерек (yerek)
• Basque: haltz (eu)
• Breton: gwern (br) pl
• Bulgarian: елша (bg) (elša)
• Catalan: vern m
• Czech: olše (cs) f
• Danish: el (da)
• Dutch: els (nl) m
• Erzya: лепе (lepe)
• Esperanto: alno (eo)
• Estonian: lepp (et)
• Faroese: elri (fo) m, ølur (fo) m
• Finnish: leppä (fi)
• French: aulne (fr) m, verne (fr) m
• German: Erle (de) f
• Greenlandic: palleq (kl)
• Hungarian: éger (hu)
• Icelandic: elri (is)
• Irish: fearnóg (ga) f
• Italian: ontano (it) m

• Jèrriais: aune m
• Latin: alnus (la) m
• Macedonian: евла (mk) (évla) f
• Manx: farney (gv) m
• Middle English: aller
• Nahuatl: Īlītl (nah)
• Norwegian: or (no) c, older (no) m and f, older (no) m and f
• Old English: alor (ang)
• Old Irish: fern
• Old Norse: ǫlr
• Polish: olcha (pl) f, olsza (pl) f
• Portuguese: amieiro (pt) m
• Romanian: arin (ro) m, anin (ro) m
• Russian: ольха (ol’χá) f
• Scots: aller
• Scottish Gaelic: feàrna (gd) f, crann-fèarna (gd) m
• Slovak: jelša (sk) f
• Slovene: jelša (sl)
• Spanish: aliso (es) m
• Swedish: al (sv) c
• Turkish: kızılağaç (tr)
• Welsh: gwern (cy)

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse aldr.

Noun

alder c (singular definite alderen, plural indefinite aldre)

1. age

Inflection

    Inflection of alder

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	alder	alderen	aldre	aldrene
genitive	alders	alderens	aldres	aldrenes

Derived terms

Terms derived from “alder”

alderdom c alderdomshjem n aldersbestemme aldersdiabetes c aldersdiabetiker c aldersformand c aldersgruppe c aldersgrænse c alderspension c alderspensionist c alderspræsident c aldersspredning c alderssvarende

alderstegen barnealder c bronzealder c førskolealder c gennemsnitsalder c guldalder c højmiddelalder c jernalder c lavalder c levealder c lømmelalder c menneskealder c middelalder c

myndighedsalder c overgangsalder c pensionsalder c senmiddelalder c stenalder c sølvalder c tidsalder c trodsalder c ungpigealder c voksealder c voksenalder c værnepligtsalder c

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Norwegian

Etymology

Old Norse aldr, akin to ale (“to raise”), from ala.

Noun

alder

1. age

Inflection

    Inflection of alder

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	alder	alderen	aldere/aldre/aldrer	alderne/aldrene
Nynorsk m	alder	alderen	aldrar	aldrane

Derived terms

• aldring