elder
Old Swedish
noun
Definitions
- fire
- a skin disease - possibly erysipelas
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse eldr (fire) inherited from Proto-Germanic *ailidaz (fire).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*ailidaz
Gloss
fire
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
火
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ild Norwegian Bokmål
- *ailidaz Proto-Germanic
- Eldslandet Swedish
- eld Swedish
- elddyrkan Swedish
- eldslukare Swedish
- eldstad Swedish
- skärseld Swedish
- eld Norwegian Nynorsk
- æled Old English
- ǣled Old English
- eldr Old Norse
- hreinsanareldr Old Norse
- eldur Icelandic
- eldur Faroese
- eld Old Saxon
- el Westrobothnian
- eld Old Danish