el-

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el-

  1. A verb particle or prefix indicating actions with direction that points away.

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Proto-Germanic *ali-, alji-, alja- (other) from Proto-Indo-European *al- (beyond, other). Akin to Old High German eli- (German el-), Old Norse alja-.

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el-

  1. forming words with sense of "strange", "other" or "else", cf. elþēodiġ (strange, foreign), ellende (in a foreign land); elcor (elsewhere). See eldritch
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