filsben
Danish
noun
Definitions
- (obsolete) ivory
Etymology
Inherited from Old Danish fils been inherited from Old Norse fílsbein (ivory), fíll (elephant) + Old Norse bein (bone, leg)derived from Arabic فِيل (elephant).
Origin
Arabic
فِيل
Gloss
elephant
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
象
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- alfil Spanish, Castilian
- bein Norwegian Bokmål
- ben Norwegian Bokmål
- *bainą Proto-Germanic
- bein Norwegian Nynorsk
- filsbein Norwegian Nynorsk
- bein Old Norse
- berbeinn Old Norse
- fíll Old Norse
- fílsbein Old Norse
- ben Danish
- فِيل Arabic
- bein Icelandic
- fíll Icelandic
- alfil Galician
- فیل Persian
- پیل Persian
- bein Faroese
- fílur Faroese
- піл Kazakh
- fil Azerbaijani
- فیل Ottoman Turkish
- ben Old Swedish
- ben, bēn Old Swedish
- fil Maltese
- bain Westrobothnian
- pyl Middle Persian
- ֆիլ Middle Armenian
- fils been Old Danish