elver
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
Definition of elver
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A young eel.
“When these glass eels enter freshwater they transform again into elvers – miniature versions of the adult eels.”
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Etymology
Variant of eelfare, originally "brood of young eels", from Middle English *elfare, *elvare, from el (“eel”) + fare (“group of journeyers”). Equivalent to eel + fare. Liberman instead connects the…
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Variant of eelfare, originally "brood of young eels", from Middle English *elfare, *elvare, from el (“eel”) + fare (“group of journeyers”). Equivalent to eel + fare. Liberman instead connects the second element of this word to a putative Old English suffix *-for(e), but there is no need to posit such a suffix when the traditional etymology suffices. Furthermore, such a suffix is not securely attested, and the spelling of the word's earliest attestation (as yele fare, ell vare) implies Middle English /aː/.
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