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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- As an English surname, spelling variant of Ell.
- As a north German surname, of Low German origin, from Proto-West Germanic *aliʀu (“alder”), comparable to Dutch els.
Proper noun
[edit]Else
- A surname.
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Else
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Contraction of Elisabeth. Cognate with German Elsa.
Proper noun
[edit]Else
- a female given name
References
[edit]- [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 59 911 females with the given name Else have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Else
- a female given name
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Else (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Else | Elset | |
genitive | Elsen | Elsejen | |
partitive | Elseä | Elsejä | |
illative | Elseen | Elseihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Else | Elset | |
accusative | nom. | Else | Elset |
gen. | Elsen | ||
genitive | Elsen | Elsejen Elsein rare | |
partitive | Elseä | Elsejä | |
inessive | Elsessä | Elseissä | |
elative | Elsestä | Elseistä | |
illative | Elseen | Elseihin | |
adessive | Elsellä | Elseillä | |
ablative | Elseltä | Elseiltä | |
allative | Elselle | Elseille | |
essive | Elsenä | Elseinä | |
translative | Elseksi | Elseiksi | |
abessive | Elsettä | Elseittä | |
instructive | — | Elsein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Else is the 410th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 962 female individuals (and as a middle name to 435 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Else
- a female given name
Norwegian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Contraction of Elisabeth.
Proper noun
[edit]Else
- a female given name
References
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from German
- English terms derived from Low German
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Czech/ɛlzɛ
- Czech non-lemma forms
- Czech noun forms
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish given names
- Danish female given names
- Finnish terms derived from Danish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/else
- Rhymes:Finnish/else/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish nalle-type nominals
- German terms borrowed from Danish
- German terms derived from Danish
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German given names
- German female given names
- Norwegian lemmas
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian given names
- Norwegian female given names