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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ainalif
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Compound of *ainaz (“one”) and *-lif (“left over”), from *lībaną (“to remain, be left”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑi̯.nɑ.liɸ/
Numeral
< 10 | 11 | 12 > |
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Cardinal : *ainalif Ordinal : *ainaliftô Multiplier : *ainaliffalþaz | ||
*ainalif[1]
- eleven
Descendants
- Old English: endleofan
- Middle English: elleven, eleven, elleovene, ellevene, ellevyn, endleve, enleve, enleven
- English: eleven
- Middle Scots: ane-levin, alevin, ellevin, elevin, levin
- Scots: eleiven, eleeven
- Middle English: elleven, eleven, elleovene, ellevene, ellevyn, endleve, enleve, enleven
- Old Frisian: andlova, alleva, elleva
- North Frisian: alwen
- Saterland Frisian: alwen
- West Frisian: alve
- Old Saxon: ellevan
- Middle Low German: elvene
- Low German:
- Dutch Low Saxon: elf
- German Low German: elf, eleve, ölve, ölven
- Hamburgisch: ülben, ölben
- Westphalian:
- Sauerländisch: elf, elwe, elbe, elwene, elewe, elef, elewene, elewen
- Westmünsterländisch: elf
- Plautdietsch: alf
- Low German:
- Middle Low German: elvene
- Old Dutch: *ellef
- Middle Dutch: ellef, elf
- Dutch: elf
- Afrikaans: elf
- Berbice Creole Dutch: alfu, elfu
- Jersey Dutch: ālf
- Negerhollands: elf, elef
- Skepi Creole Dutch: elk
- → Sranan Tongo: erfu
- → Aukan: elufu
- → Saramaccan: elúfu
- Dutch: elf
- Middle Dutch: ellef, elf
- Old High German: einlif
- Middle High German: einlif, einlef, eilif, eilef, eilf
- Alemannic German: eintlef, einlef
- Bavarian:
- Cimbrian: ölbe
- Central Franconian: ellef
- German: elf
- Luxembourgish: eelef
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: elf
- Vilamovian: alf
- Yiddish: עלף (elf)
- Middle High German: einlif, einlef, eilif, eilef, eilf
- Old Norse: ellifu
- Icelandic: ellefu
- Faroese: ellivu
- Norwegian: elleve
- Jamtish: elluv
- Elfdalian: ellåv
- Westrobothnian: ällåv, elav
- Old Swedish: ællivu, ællivo, ællevo, ælleve, ælleva, ællovo, ællova
- Swedish: elva, (archaic or dialectal) ellova
- Danish: elleve
- Gutnish: elve, elvå, elvu
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌻𐌹𐍆 (ainlif)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ainalifa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 11