elo

elo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for El Molo.

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elo (plural elos)

1. (chess, other games) Synonym of Elo rating.

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• Loe, loe, ole, EOL, LEO, -ole, 'Ole, LoE, OEL, olé, leo, OLE, Leo

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From English ale. Compare German Ale, Yiddish עיל (eyl), Russian эль (elʹ), French ale.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelo/
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: e‧lo

elo (accusative singular elon, plural eloj, accusative plural elojn)

1. ale

• biero (“beer”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈelo/,
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification^(key): e‧lo
• Hyphenation^(key): elo

From Proto-Finnic *elo (compare Estonian elu, Karelian elo, Livonian jel, Veps elo, Votic elo), equivalent to elää (“to live”) +‎ -o.

elo

1. (chiefly poetic) life, living

   Synonym: elämä

2. life, liveliness, vitality

   Synonym: eloisuus

3. ripe grain, crop

elo

1. abbreviation of elokuu (“August”)

From a Sami language.

elo

1. a large herd of reindeer, often thousands of reindeer

• Leo, ole

• “elo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja ‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2024-01-01

From Old Galician-Portuguese *ãelo, from Latin anellus. Doublet of anel, a borrowing from Occitan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlo̝/

elo m (plural elos)

1. chain link

From Hokkien 汝 (lú).

elo

1. (Jakarta, slang) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

• anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• coen (slang, East Java)
• ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• kamu (intimate)
• ko, kowe (informal, Java)
• kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
• lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

From Proto-Finnic *elo, equivalent to ellää (“to live”) +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish elo and Estonian elu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈelo/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈelo/,
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈelo/,
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: e‧lo

elo

1. life
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:

     Senen peräst, jot höö tahtoot
     uutta elloa oppia.

     Because they want
     to try out a new life.

• elämä

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 82
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 30
• Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 24
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 78

From Proto-Finnic *elo. Cognate with Finnish elo and Estonian elu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelo/
• Hyphenation: e‧lo

elo (genitive elon, partitive eluo)

1. goods, property
2. (North Karelian) life
3. (North Karelian) crops

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “elo”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) , →ISBN
• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “elo”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) , Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *elo, equivalent to eliä (“to live”) +‎ -o. Cognate with Finnish elo and Estonian elu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelo/
• Hyphenation: e‧lo
• Rhymes: -elo

elo

1. life

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) , 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 34

• lo (choice depends chiefly on intonation)

From Middle High German aldā (“right there”), from al + dā (Luxembourgish all + do). Compare Dutch aldaar, archaic German allda.

• IPA^(key): /eˈlo/,

• Audio:

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elo

1. now

   Ech wëll elo heemgoen.

   I want to go home now.

2. (now only with demonstratives) right here; right there

   Dat elo ass eng Schëpp.

   This right here is a shovel.

Elo ebá na dan cikán bo na.

Èlo dagba

Elo

• IPA^(key): /ē.lō/

elo (plural elozhì)

1. kob antelope (Kobus kob)

   Synonym: elogi

• IPA^(key): /è.lō/

èlo

1. trunk (of an elephant)

• IPA^(key): /ē.lō/

elo (plural elozhì)

1. locust bean fruit (Parkia biglobosa)

• lon̄ci (“locust bean tree”)

• lòǹgòrò (“empty locust fruit pods”)
• kúlà (“fermented locust bean paste”)

• IPA^(key): /è.lò/

èlò

1. debt; credit

   Synonym: gbàtà

• IPA^(key): /è.ló/

èló (plural èlózhì)

1. slate; tablet (for writing)

• IPA^(key): /è.ló/

èló (plural èlózhì)

1. gore; gusset (in clothing)

Borrowed from English hello. It is said to have been either coined or popularised by a Polish hip-hop group Molesta Ewenement in the mid-late 1990s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.lɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛlɔ
• Syllabification: e‧lo
• Homophone: Elo

elo

1. (slang) hi

   Synonyms: cześć, hej, siema

• elo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese *ãelo, from Latin ānellus, diminutive of anus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”). See also the doublet anel, borrowed from Occitan.

elo m (plural elos)

1. link
   • (Can we date this quote?), Paulo Leminski, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Amar é um elo
     entre o azul
     e o amarelo

     To love is a link
     between the blue /
     and the yellow

• “elo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• êlu

elo (plural elos)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism, informal) they, them (singular) (a gender-neutral or genderqueer singular third-person personal pronoun)
   • 2021 March 17, André Fischer, “Linguagem neutra ”, in Manual ampliado de linguagem inclusiva ‎, Matrix Editora:

     sistemas que usam diferentes pronomes - principalmente ile, ili, elo e elu.

     systems that use different pronouns, - mainly ile, ili, elo and elu.

• eło, éło, élo

From Latin ille or illum. Compare Italian egli.

elo

1. he

From Proto-Finnic *elo.

elo

1. life

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “быт, жизнь, положение”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ ‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *elo. Compare Estonian elu, Finnish elo.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈelo/,
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: e‧lo

elo

1. life

   Synonym: eläme

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat , 2nd edition, Tallinn

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɛlɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈeːlɔ/, /ˈɛlɔ/

elo

1. (literary) third-person singular present subjunctive of mynd

• êl

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• IPA^(key):

êlo

1. that; class 5 distal demonstrative.