Inherited fromMiddle Englishaldre,alder,aller, fromOld Englishalor, fromProto-West Germanic*aluʀu, fromProto-Germanic*aluz,*alusō,*alizō,*alisō.
alder (pluralalders)
- Any of several trees or shrubs of the genusAlnus, belonging to thebirch family.
1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] The Axe-helve.”, inNew Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.:Henry Holt and Company,→OCLC,page37:I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Ofalder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at anotheralder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, analder branch.
1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson,Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page273:Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as thealder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
1967, J. A. Baker,The Peregrine, page40:That's what the tiercel was doing when I found him again in thealder.
any tree or shrub of the genusAlnus
- Abaza:алтӏа́(altʼá),алчӏвы́(alćʷʼə́)
- Abkhaz:ал(al)
- Adyghe:екӏапцӏ(jekʼapcʼ)
- Albanian:verr (sq)
- Arabic:جَار الْمَاء m(jār al-māʔ),نَغْت m(naḡt)
- Armenian:լաստենի (hy)(lasteni)
- Aromanian:anin (roa-rup),arin (roa-rup)
- Azerbaijani:qızılağac (az)
- Bashkir:ерек(yerek)
- Basque:haltz (eu)
- Belarusian:вольха(vólʹxa)
- Breton:gwern (br) pl
- Bulgarian:елша (bg) f(elša)
- Carpathian Rusyn:please add this translation if you can
- Catalan:vern (ca) m
- Chechen:маъ(maʔ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:榿 /桤 (zh)(qī),赤楊 /赤杨 (zh)(chìyáng)
- Czech:olše (cs) f
- Danish:el (da)
- Dutch:els (nl) m
- Erzya:лепе(lepe)
- Esperanto:alno
- Estonian:lepp
- Faroese:elri (fo) m,ølur m
- Finnish:leppä (fi)
- French:aulne (fr) m,verne (fr) m
- Friulian:please add this translation if you can
- Galician:amieiro (gl) m,ameneiro (gl) m,abeneiro (gl) m,arche m
- Georgian:თხმელა(txmela),მურყანი(murq̇ani)
- German:Erle (de) f,Eller f,Erlenbaum (de) f
- Greek:άλνος f(álnos),σκλήθρα (el) f(sklíthra),σκλήθρο (el) n(sklíthro)
- Ancient:κλήθρα f(klḗthra)
- Greenlandic:palleq
- Hungarian:éger (hu)
- Hunsrik:please add this translation if you can
- Icelandic:elri (is) n,ölur m
- Ingrian:leppä
- Ingush:миинг(miı̇ng)
- Irish:fearnóg f
- Old Irish:fern
- Italian:ontano (it) m
- Japanese:榿 (ja)(hannoki)
- Kabardian:екӏэпцӏэ (kbd)(jekʼɛpcʼɛ)
- Kaitag:ми́гъва(míɣva),минтӏин(minṭin)
- Kashubian:please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh:қандыағаш(qandyağaş)
- Ladin:aunëi m
- Latin:alnus (la) f
- Latvian:alksnis m
- Laz:თხომუ(txomu),ფშქველა(pşkvela)
- Ligurian:please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian:alksnis
- Lombard:please add this translation if you can
- Low German:
- Dutch Low Saxon:eller (nds) f
- German Low German:Eller f,Els f
- Macedonian:евла f(evla)
- Manx:farney m,farney f
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari:нӧлпӧ(nölpö)
- Western Mari:лӱлпӹ(lülpÿ)
- Mazanderani:توسکا(tuskā)
- Megleno-Romanian:rin m
- Middle English:aldre
- Mingrelian:თხუმუ(txumu)
- Nahuatl:Īlītl (nah)
- Norman:aune m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:or (no) m orf,older m orf
- Nynorsk:or (nn) m orf,older m orf
- Occitan:vèrn (oc) m
- Ojibwe:wadoop
- Old English:alor m
- Old Norse:ǫlr m,elri n,elrir m,órir m
- Ossetian:
- Digor:фӕруӕ(færwæ)
- Iron:фӕрв(færv)
- Ottoman Turkish:قزل آغاج(kızıl ağaç)
- Pannonian Rusyn:иваново древо n(ivanovo drevo)
- Persian:توسکا (fa)(tuskâ),رزدار(razdâr)
- Piedmontese:please add this translation if you can
- Polish:olcha (pl) f,olsza (pl) f
- Portuguese:amieiro (pt) m
- Romanian:arin (ro) m,anin (ro) m
- Russian:ольха́ (ru) f(olʹxá)
- Sami:
- Kildin Sami:ле̄һпь(liehp’)
- Sardinian:abiu m,alinu m,altzu m
- Scots:aller
- Scottish Gaelic:feàrna f,crann-fèarna m
- Serbo-Croatian:joha (sh) f,jova (sh) f
- Slovak:jelša (sk) f
- Slovene:jelša (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian:wólša f
- Upper Sorbian:please add this translation if you can
- Spanish:aliso (es) m
- Svan:ბალყა̈ჩ(balq̇äč)
- Swedish:al (sv) c
- Tagalog:aliso
- Turkish:kızılağaç (tr)
- Udmurt:лулпу(lulpu)
- Ukrainian:вільха(vilʹxa)
- Venetan:onaro (vec)
- Volapük:please add this translation if you can
- Welsh:gwernen f
- Yiddish:אָלכע f(olkhe)
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Clipping ofalderman.
alder (pluralalders)
- Analderman oralderwoman.
2004, Stephanie Luce -,Fighting for a Living Wage, page121:Almost immediately, cityalders contacted the campaign to negotiate an ordinance.
2013, Dawn Day Biehler,Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats, page180:Chicago's mayor Edward Kennelly, the cityalders, and many white Chicagoans opposed this siting plan.
2017 September 28, Isabel Bysiewicz, “Eidelson reflects on time as alder”, inYale Daily News:After three years as Ward 1alder, Sarah Eidelson ’12 will leave city government at the end of the year.
FromOld Danishaldær, fromOld Norsealdr, fromProto-Germanic*aldrą.
alder c (singular definitealderen,plural indefinitealdre)
- age
alder
- alternative form ofaldre
Inherited fromOld Norsealdr, fromProto-Germanic*aldrą. Akin toale(“to raise”), fromala.
alder m (definite singularalderen,indefinite pluralaldereoraldreoraldrer,definite pluralalderneoraldrene)
- age
Inherited fromOld Norsealdr, fromProto-Germanic*aldrą. Akin toale(“to raise”), fromala.
alder m (definite singularalderen,indefinite pluralaldrar,definite pluralaldrane)
- age
Fromal(“wholly”) +thēr(“there”).
aldēr
- then
- when
aldēr
- when
- if,in casethat
Inherited fromOld Norseallr, fromProto-Germanic*allaz.
alder
- all
- whole,complete
Inherited fromOld Norsealdr, fromProto-Germanic*aldrą.
alder m
- lifetime
- age(how old someone or something is)
- age,era
- oldage
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