Elf

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See also: elf and ELF

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ʔɛlf/
  • (file)

Etymology 1[edit]

From elf (eleven).

Noun[edit]

Elf f (genitive Elf, plural Elfen)

  1. (a group of) eleven
  2. football team, XI (so called because eleven is the number of players on such a team)
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Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English elf in 18th century literature, from Old English ælf, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz. Doublet of Alb.

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Elf m (mixed, genitive Elfen or Elfs, plural Elfen)

  1. elf
    • 1762, Christoph Martin Wieland, transl., Ein St. Johannis Nachts-Traum, translation of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, act 2, scene 1:
      So heftig ist ihr Zwist, daß alle ihre Elfen / Vor Angst in Ahorn-Becher sich verkriechen.
      But they do square, that all their Elues for feare / Creepe into Acorne cups and hide them there.
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Terms derived from Elf or Elfe:

References[edit]

  • Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220.