эль

See also: ель and Appendix:Variations of "el"

Ket

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *eʌɬʌ (“fishspear”), perhaps from earlier *egʌɬ?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛl̥ʲ˥˩], [ɛɬʲ˥˩]

Noun

эль (èlʲ) n (plural эʼль or элинь)

1. fishspear, harpoon (fishing implement)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Ketic *eˀʌɬʌ (“weak, limp, slack, flabby”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛl̥ʲ˥˩], [ɛɬʲ˥˩]

Adjective

эль (èlʲ)

1. weak, slack; flabby
2. loose, loose-fitting (of clothes)

Usage notes

• This term is only found in the Southern Ket varieties (Kellog dialect,) and it is not listed by VWdJS as a Ket word. The neighbouring related Yug (who traditionally lived south of the Ket speakers) feature this term regularly, which may suggest a linguistic contact or common preservation of the ancestral term.

Further reading

• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 230, 259-260
• Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 166

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from English ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛlʲ]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

эль • (elʹ) m inan (genitive э́ля, nominative plural э́ли, genitive plural э́лей, relational adjective э́левый)

1. ale (English beer)
   • 1979, Эдуард Лимонов [Eduard Limonov], “Глава четвёртая. Крис”, in Это я — Эдичка, Альпина Диджитал; English translation from S. L. Campbell, transl., It's Me, Eddie, 1983:

     Для оживле́ния, как я утвержда́л, я вы́пил ещё в промежу́тках ме́жду кра́сным бургу́ндским па́ру ба́нок э́ля и не́сколько стака́нчиков во́дки.

     Dlja oživlénija, kak ja utverždál, ja výpil ješčó v promežútkax méždu krásnym burgúndskim páru bánok élja i néskolʹko stakánčikov vódki.

     To revive myself, as I drank, I had a couple of cans of ale and several shots of vodka in the intervals between red burgundy.

Declension

Declension of эль (inan masc-form soft-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	э́ль élʹ	э́ли éli
genitive	э́ля élja	э́лей élej
dative	э́лю élju	э́лям éljam
accusative	э́ль élʹ	э́ли éli
instrumental	э́лем élem	э́лями éljami
prepositional	э́ле éle	э́лях éljax

Derived terms

• пѐйл-э́ль (pɛ̀jl-élʹ)
• све́тлый э́ль (svétlyj élʹ)

Noun

эль • (elʹ) n inan (indeclinable)

1. The Cyrillic letter Л, л.
2. The Roman letter L, l.

Usage notes

See usage notes for л (l).

Synonyms

• (letter): эл (el)