ealdor
Old English
noun
Definitions
- elder, parent, head of a family; senior man
- chief, lord, leader, master
- prince, king
- author; source, origin, authority, derivation
- (in the plural) ancestors
- (religious) elder
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *aldraz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*aldraz
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- alder Norwegian Bokmål
- aldring Norwegian Bokmål
- *aldraz Proto-Germanic
- *aldrą Proto-Germanic
- alder Norwegian Nynorsk
- ealdorleas Old English
- ealdormann Old English
- mann Old English
- aldr Old Norse
- aldraðr Old Norse
- aldrœnn Old Norse
- aldur Icelandic
- altar Old High German
- aldur Faroese
- alter Middle High German
- Altar Alemannic German
- alder Old Swedish
- aldær Old Danish