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English
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Middle English aldre, alder, aller, from Old English alor, from Proto-West Germanic *aluʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō, *alizō, *alisō.
Pronunciation
Noun
alder (plural alders)
- Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.
1923, Robert Frost, “The Axe-helve”, in New Hampshire , New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 37:I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch.
1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273:Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 40:That's what the tiercel was doing when I found him again in the alder.
Derived terms
Translations
any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
- Abaza: алтӏа́ (altʼá), алчӏвы́ (alćʷʼə́)
- Abkhaz: ал (al)
- Adyghe: екӏапцӏ (jekʼapcʼ)
- Albanian: verr (sq)
- Arabic: جَار الْمَاء m (jār al-māʔ), نَغْت m (naḡt)
- Armenian: լաստենի (hy) (lasteni)
- Aromanian: anin (roa-rup), arin (roa-rup)
- Azerbaijani: qızılağac (az)
- Bashkir: ерек (yerek)
- Basque: haltz (eu)
- Belarusian: вольха (vólʹxa)
- Breton: gwern (br) pl
- Bulgarian: елша (elša)
- Catalan: vern (ca) m
- Chechen: маъ (maʔ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 榿/桤 (zh) (qī), 赤楊/赤杨 (zh) (chìyáng)
- Czech: olše (cs) f
- Danish: el (da)
- Dutch: els (nl) m
- Erzya: лепе (ľepe)
- Esperanto: alno
- Estonian: lepp
- Faroese: elri (fo) m, ølur m
- Finnish: leppä (fi)
- French: aulne (fr) m, verne (fr) m
- Galician: amieiro (gl) m, ameneiro (gl) m, abeneiro (gl) m, arche m
- Georgian: თხმელა (txmela), მურყანი (murq̇ani)
- German: Erle (de) f
- Greek: άλνος m (álnos), σκλήθρα (el) f (sklíthra)
- Ancient: κλήθρα f (klḗthra)
- Greenlandic: palleq
- Hungarian: éger (hu)
- Icelandic: elri (is), ölur m
- Ingrian: leppä
- Ingush: миинг (miı̇ng)
- Irish: fearnóg f
- Old Irish: fern
- Italian: ontano (it) m
- Japanese: 榿 (ja) (hannoki)
- Kabardian: екӏэпцӏэ (kbd) (jekʼɛpcʼɛ)
- Kazakh: қандыағаш (qandyağaş)
- Ladin: aunëi m
- Latin: alnus (la) f
- Latvian: alksnis m
- Laz: თხომუ (txomu), ფშქველა (pşkvela)
- Low German: Eller f, Els f
- German Low German: eller (nds)
- Macedonian: евла f (evla)
- Manx: farney m, farney f
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: нӧлпӧ (nölpö)
- Western Mari: лӱлпӹ (lülpÿ)
- Mazanderani: توسکا (tuskā)
- Middle English: aldre
- Mingrelian: თხუმუ (txumu)
- Nahuatl: Īlītl (nah)
- Norman: aune m
- Norwegian: or (no) c, older m or f, older m or f
- Occitan: vèrn (oc) m
- Ojibwe: wadoop
- Old English: alor m
- Old Norse: ǫlr
- Ossetian: фӕрв (færv)
- Ottoman Turkish: قزل آغاج (kızıl ağaç)
- Persian: توسکا (fa) (tuskâ), رزدار (razdâr)
- Polish: olcha (pl) f, olsza (pl) f
- Portuguese: amieiro (pt) m
- Romanian: arin (ro) m, anin (ro) m
- Russian: ольха́ (ru) f (olʹxá)
- Sami:
- Kildin Sami: ле̄һпь (liehp’)
- Scots: aller
- Scottish Gaelic: feàrna f, crann-fèarna m
- Serbo-Croatian: joha (sh) f, jova (sh) f
- Slovak: jelša (sk) f
- Slovene: jelša (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wólša f
- Spanish: aliso (es) m
- Svan: ბალყა̈ჩ (balq̇äč)
- Swedish: al (sv) c
- Tagalog: aliso
- Turkish: kızılağaç (tr)
- Udmurt: лулпу (lulpu)
- Ukrainian: вільха (vilʹxa)
- Venetian: onaro (vec)
- Welsh: gwernen f
- Yiddish: אָלכע f (olkhe)
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Etymology 2
Clipping of alderman.
Noun
alder (plural alders)
- An alderman or alderwoman.
2004, Stephanie Luce -, Fighting for a Living Wage, page 121:Almost immediately, city alders contacted the campaign to negotiate an ordinance.
2013, Dawn Day Biehler, Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats, page 180:Chicago's mayor Edward Kennelly, the city alders, and many white Chicagoans opposed this siting plan.
2017 September 28, Isabel Bysiewicz, “Eidelson reflects on time as alder”, in Yale Daily News:After three years as Ward 1 alder, Sarah Eidelson ’12 will leave city government at the end of the year.
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Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish aldær, from Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą.
Noun
alder c (singular definite alderen, plural indefinite aldre)
- age
Inflection
Derived terms
Terms derived from “alder”
Middle English
Noun
alder
- Alternative form of aldre
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą. Akin to ale (“to raise”), from ala.
Noun
alder m (definite singular alderen, indefinite plural aldere or aldre or aldrer, definite plural alderne or aldrene)
- age
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą. Akin to ale (“to raise”), from ala.
Pronunciation
Noun
alder m (definite singular alderen, indefinite plural aldrar, definite plural aldrane)
- age
Derived terms
References
Old Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Old Norse allr, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.
Adjective
alder
- all
- whole, complete
Declension
Declension of alder (strong)
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą.
Noun
alder m
- lifetime
- age; how old someone or something is
- age, era
- old age
Declension
Declension of alder (strong a-stem)
Descendants