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Definition: Elf |
ElfNoun1. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous. 2. Below 3 kilohertz. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "elf" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Elf \Elf\ ([e^]lf), noun; plural Elves([e^]lvz). [Anglo-Saxon [ae]lf, ylf; akin to MHG. alp, German alp nightmare, incubus, Icelandic [=a]lfr elf, Swedish alf, elfva; compare to Sanskrit [.r]bhu skillful, artful, rabh to grasp. Compare to Auf, Oaf.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ELF Binary format used by System V Release 4 Unix. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | = extremely low frequency. See frequency band.Abbreviation. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | ELF. A fairy or hobgoblin, a little man or woman. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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ELF is an acronym for Eritrean Liberation FrontThere is also an object code format called ELF, Executable and Linkable Format, used on many new Unix-like operating systems.
The name ELF also refers to extremely low-frequency electromagnetic radiation, involved in upper atmosphere lightning-related phenomena and in strategic communication with naval submarines. The frequency band in question is 30-300 hertz.
ELF is also an acronym for the Endangered Language Fund, which serves as a focus group to help document and where possible record and preserve human languages threatened with extinction. Their web site is to be found at: http://sapir.ling.yale.edu/~elf/. ELF is an acronym for the direct action terrist group Earth Liberation Front, whose members often refer to themselves as Elves.
See also:
- For the mythical creatures: Elf;
- For the optical and electromagnetic phenomenon: Elve
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Elves are mythical creatures of Germanic mythology often pictured in folktales as small people with mischievous personalities. They are sometimes said to be invisible.
However Elf and other terms like Fairy, Pucca, Hob, Brownie, and so forth are not clearly distinguished in English folklore, nor are similar terms in other European languages.
Norse mythology knows of Light-elves (Liosálfar) who dwell in the third space in heaven, Dark-elves (Döckálfar) and Black-elves (Svartalfar), the Black-Elves being identifed with Dwarfs though in general Elves and Dwarfs are distinguished in surviving Norse literature. But about Elves (other than Black-elves/Dwarfs) little is said. They are often mentioned along with the gods, apparently as lesser spirits of nature.
So little has survived that we have no idea as to whether these beings were thought of as generally human-sized or dwarfish, though that the full size smith hero Völund is once called an elf indicates that not all Norse Elves need be of small size.
The home of the Light-elves is Alfheim 'Elvenhome', which is ruled by the god Freyr. The Dwarfs lived in Svartalfheim.
The term ælfsciene 'Elf-shining' is used in the Old English poem Judith referring to Elven beauty. On the other hand oaf is simply a variant of the word elf, presumably orginally referring to a changeling or to someone stupified by Elvish enchantment.
Supernatural folk were often pictured as living in forests and other natural places or underground or in wells and springs. They were imagined to be long-lived or immortal and magical powers were attributed to them.
Elf-shot was the name use for found neolithic flint arrow-heads, imagined as created and used by the Elvish folk and sudden paralysis was sometimes attributed to Elf-stroke.
Unfortunately we have little documentation of English rustic beliefs and terminology before the nineteenth century, but it seems Elves could be used, at least on some occasions or some places, to refer to various kinds of uncanny wights whether human sized or smaller. But other terms were also used.
However in Elizabeth England Shakespeare imagines Elves and Fairies in general as little people. In Henry IV, Part 1, i. 4, he has Falstaff call Prince Henry: "you starveling, you elfskin!" and in his Midsummer Night's Dream his Elves are almost as small as insects. On the other hand Edmund Spenser applies Elf to full-sized beings in his Fairie Queene.
But the influence of Shakespeare and Michael Drayton influenced the use of Elf and Fairy for very small beings to become the norm. In Victorian literature Elves usually appeared in illustrations as tiny men with pointed ears and stocking caps. There were exceptions such as the full-size Elves who appear in Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter. In 1954 Poul Anderson introduced grim Norse Elves in his fantasy novel The Broken Sword and made them full-sized.
Fairy (a word of French derivation) was the more general term in modern English for supernatural folk and more likely to be used for full sized supernatural beings, but it became spoilt for its proper used by being much used instead to mean 'effiminate' or 'homosexual''.
Probably partly for this reason as well as from a preference for native English words over foreign imports, the mid-twentieth-century fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien used Elves in his published fantasy as the name of an imagined race of beings similar to humans but fairer, with greater spiritual powers, more closely linked to nature and with lives as long as the earth would exist.
Those who still remain in mortal lands are supposed to have dwindled in size and faded to a wraith-like form and to have become the truth (or one of the truths) behind strange wights glimpsed in folklore. But Tolkien's works speak of his Elves when their race was still young and they were much like human beings and were ferocious warriors at need. Tolkien had little use for Shakepearian fairy protrayals, much less for Victorian diminutive fairy prettiness and whimsy. He used the earlier and less-used Elven rather than Edmund Spenser's invented Elfin as the corresponding adjective.
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, published in 1954, became astoundingly popular and was much imitated. In the 1960's and beyond "Elves" similar to those in Tolkien's writing became staple non-human characters in high fantasy works as well as in fantasy gaming which derived its origin mostly from role-playing games influenced by Tolkien's writing.
Accordingly post-Tolkien literary Elves tend to be human-sized or only slightly smaller than humans and capable warriors especially skilled in archery. (They are unlikely to sneak in at night and help a cobbler mend his shoes. Terms like Hob or Brownie or other genuine regional folklore terms are likely to be used of such creatures if they are written about.) Tolkien's Elves were enemies of the Goblins/Orcs and had a longstanding quarrel with the Dwarves and these motifs also often reappear.
There are also Dark Elves popularized by TSR as drow.
Wendy and Richard Pini's long-running comic book Elfquest attempts to avoid the usual elfin clichés and Tolkien Elf clichés by placing their Elves in a setting inspired by Native American rather than European mythology.
See also: mythology, faerie, gnome, dwarf, role-playing game, Elves (Middle-earth), elvish language.
Elf was also the name of a French oil company, which is now part of TotalFinaElf.
Elf can mean an Earth Liberation Front sympathizer.
See also: ELF
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The Elves are one of the fictional races that appear in the work of J. R. R. Tolkien. Their complex history is described in full only in The Silmarillion, and it is mentioned tangentially in The Lord of the Rings. Elves were the first inhabitants of Middle-earth who were able to speak. They are sometimes called the Firstborn (as opposed to Men, the Afterborn). The Elves named themselves Quendi (the Speakers), in honor of the fact that, when they were created, they were the only living things able to speak. (This name is no accident - Tolkien was a linguist.) Oromë called them Eldar (Star People) because they were born under the stars, but the name is generally considered to exclude the Avari.
Elves are described as the fairest of all creatures in Middle-earth, lovers of art (particularly songs, which they sing in beautiful voices). Elves are also stronger than Men and have far sharper senses, enabling them to communicate and be in harmony with nature. Elves possess an affinity with nature and the earth that Men may see as "magic." Their memories and dreams are as vivid as real life.
Tolkien saw Elves as human beings prior to the original sin; while this made them perfect (it is specifically told that not a single Elf joined Morgoth or Sauron, the Enemies), it also made them less able than the mortal Men, that appeared after them. By the Third Age (the time of The Lord of the Rings), the importance of Elves in affairs of the world is diminishing, and only a few of them are left in Rivendell, Lothlórien, and the Mirkwood. Many of them can be seen walking west, towards the elf havens, to leave Middle-earth forever, and those who stay in the meanwhile know that it is their fate to "diminish and go West". None of them are to remain in Middle-earth after the end of the Fourth Age.
Some important Elves:
Half-elven:
- Ingwë
- Elwë (aka Elu Thingol)
- Finwë
- Fëanor
- Galadriel
- Gil-galad
- Legolas
See also: Sundering of the Elves, Elvish language
- Elros
- Elrond
- Arwen
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The Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) is a common standard in computing for executables and object code. First published in the Tool Interface Standard and the System V Application Binary Interface, it was quickly accepted among different vendors of UNIX systems.Today the ELF format has replaced the proprietary (or sometimes just platform-specific) executable formats in the Linux, Solaris, Irix, and some BSD operating systems.
Other object code file formats are a.out and COFF; ELF could be considered a "competitor" to those.
ELF file layout
Each ELF file is made up of one ELF header, followed by zero or more segments and zero or more sections. The segments contain information that is necessary for runtime execution of the file, while sections contain important data for linking and relocation. Each byte in the entire file is taken by no more than one section at a time, but there can be orphan bytes, which are not covered by a section. In the normal case of a UNIX executable one or more sections are enclosed in one segment. The segments and sections of the file are listed in a program header table and section header table respectivly.
On many UNIX systems the command
man elfmay provide some more details.
External link
- Description of the ELF binary format
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Extremely Low Frequency (or ELF) refers to a band of radio frequencies from 3 Hz to 300 Hz.ELF is used by the US Navy to communicate with submerged submarines. The extremely high electrical conductivity of seawater shields submarines from most electromagnetic communications. Signals in the ELF frequency range, however, can penetrate much more deeply. The low transmission rate of most ELF communications limits their use as communications channels; generally an ELF signal serves to request that a submarine surface and initiate some other form of contact.
One of the difficulties posed when broadcasting in the ELF frequency range is antenna size. In order to transmit internationally using ELF frequencies, an extremely large antenna is required. The US maintains two sites, in Wisconsin and Michigan. Both sites use long power lines as antennae, in multiple strands ranging from 14 to 28 miles long. Considerable amounts of power are generated and emitted by ELF, and there have been some concerns over the possible ecological impact of such signals.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Extremely Low Frequency."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ELF | English | Earth Liberation Front | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ElfSynonyms: brownie (n), extremely low frequency (n), gremlin (n), hob (n), imp (n), pixie (n), pixy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Demon | Vampire, ghoul; afreet, barghest, Loki; ogre, ogress; gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia; bogie, bogeyman, bogle; nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin; Puck, Robin Goodfellow; leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp. |
Infant | Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle. |
Littleness | Dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy, dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling,dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy, dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow. |
Man | Noun: man, male, he, him; manhood. (adolescence); gentleman, sir, master; sahib; yeoman, wight, swain, fellow, blade, beau, elf, chap, gaffer, good man; husband. (married man); Mr., mister; boy. (youth). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Elf |
| English words defined with "elf": Auf ♦ Elf arrow, elfin, Elfkin, Elve ♦ Fay, fey ♦ leprechaun ♦ Ouphe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "elf": Cluricaune ♦ May Molloch, MPR II ♦ Pigwiggin ♦ TLAs ♦ Urgan. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Elf" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (eleven, elf), Czech (elf), Dutch (eleven, elf), German (eleven, elf, Goblin, pixie, pixy, sprite, team), Romanian (elf, fairy, Goblin, spirit, sprite). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Maybe an elf or a leprechaun (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen) Don't tell the elf! (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Now listen, you, you're an elf and elves make toys (Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer; writing credit: Robert May; Romeo Muller) I do not like the tone of your voice, Dark Elf. The face I have is the face the ladies love (Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn; writing credit: Verónica Suárez) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Spuit Elf (1964) Elf Jahre und ein Tag (1963) His Better Elf (1958) | |
Song Titles | Elf Call (performing artist: Steeleye Span) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Anti-Vivisection. : (The Hon. Stephen Coleridge.) / Elf [pseud.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | A Great Surgeon. : (Dr. Bland Sutton.) / Elf [pseud.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Elf [and] Beatrice. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Programm: Theaterprogramm für die Elf Scharfrichter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Elf / fairy" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Elf / fairy." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | Are you the prankish elf I've heard about |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Offshore Kazakhstan International Operating Company (OKIOC), under a production sharing agreement with the government of Kazakhstan signed in November 1997, will explore for oil and gas in the North Caspian Sea. The OKIOC consortium unites AGIP of Italy, BG of Britain, Inpex of Japan, Totalfina Elf of France, Statoil of Norway, Phillips Petroleum, the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, BP Amoco and ExxonMobil. (references) | |
Economic History | Eritrea | In 1970, members of the group had a falling out, and a group broke away from the ELF and formed the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF). (references) |
Qatar | Qatar Vinyl Company (QVC): Qatar Petroleum 25.5 percent, state-owned Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) 31.9 percent, Elf Atochem 12.9 percent, Norsk Hydro 29.7 percent. (references) | |
Haiti | Elf, the French petroleum company, has invested close to USD 9 million since 1995. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines plans to invest USD 9 million to upgrade their facility at Labadie Beach. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | But if the ELF acronym is mostly unfamiliar on the East Coast, it has long been a reference point in the Pacific Northwest for illegal and extreme environmental activism that law enforcement officials call eco-terrorism. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Elf" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.39% of the time. "Elf" is used about 205 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 84.39% | 173 | 23,656 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.68% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.93% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 205 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "elf". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Elwood | Male | English | The elf wood |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name |
| France | Elf Gabon SA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "elf": Elf arrow ♦ elf bolt ♦ Elf child ♦ elf cup ♦ elf dart ♦ Elf fire ♦ Elf owl ♦ elf shot. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "elf": Elf-biter, elf-bolt, elf-bow, Elf-cc, elf-friend, elf-ghosts, elf-hero, elf-land, elf-lock, elf-locks, elf-maid, elf-maids, elf-patterned, elf-queen, Elf-rc, elf-realm, elf-shot, elf-struck, Elf-uo, elf-woman. | |
Ending with "elf": non-elf. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
elf | 3,071 | elf lord ring | 48 |
elf bowling | 1,270 | elf female | 48 |
wood elf | 421 | nude elf | 48 |
elf picture | 247 | canon elf | 45 |
dark elf | 154 | elf keebler | 45 |
elf porn | 120 | elf night | 44 |
elf pic | 101 | high elf | 44 |
bowl elf | 99 | anime elf | 44 |
elf movie | 98 | drawing elf | 41 |
elf name | 89 | elf game | 39 |
elf owl | 62 | elf ferrell will | 38 |
elf gemini | 61 | elf language | 37 |
fairy and elf | 59 | elf generator name | 37 |
elf hentai | 57 | elf bowling game | 37 |
elf bowling 2 | 56 | elf ear | 35 |
those who hunt elf | 54 | fantasy elf | 34 |
elf art | 52 | christmas elf | 34 |
elf fina total | 51 | elf sex | 34 |
naked elf | 50 | elf atochem | 33 |
3 bowling elf | 49 | elf girl | 33 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "elf"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | elf (eleven). (various references) | |
Albanian | njeri qerrata, kukudh (bogey, gremlin), karanxholl. (various references) | |
Arabic | قزم (bantam, dwarf, gnome, homunculus, lilliputian, manikin, midget, pigmy, pygmy, runt), جني صغير (sprite). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самодива (fairy, wood nymph), фея (fairy, sprite), горски дух, елф, пакостниче, дребосък (midget, minikin, minim, peanut, shorty, shrimp, sprat), джудже (dwarf, gnome, manikin, midget, pygmy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 魈 , 魍 (sprite), 小精靈 . (various references) | |
Czech | elf, skřítek (elves, gnome, Goblin, gremlin, hobgoblin, imp, manikin, pixie, pixy, pygmy, sprite). (various references) | |
Danish | selvtrimmende skib (collier, elf trimmer), kulbaad (collier, elf trimmer). (various references) | |
Dutch | elf (eleven), luchtgeest. (various references) | |
Esperanto | elfo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | huldufólk, álvur. (various references) | |
Farsi | پری (Full, Glut), جن (Bogey, Deuce, Goblin, Spook, Sprite, Urchin). (various references) | |
Finnish | keijukainen (fairy). (various references) | |
French | elfe, lutin, farfadet. (various references) | |
Frisian | alve. (various references) | |
German | kobold (bogey, gnome, goblin, gremlin, hobgoblin, imp, leprechaun, pixie, pixy, puck, sprite), elf (eleven, Goblin, pixie, pixy, sprite, team). (various references) | |
Greek | ξωτικό (hob, hobgoblin, pixy, puck, sprite), νάνοσ (dwarf, gnome, lilliputian, manikin, midget, minim, pigmy, pygmy, runt, troll), δαιμόνιο (daemon, demon, hob, imp, puck). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שדון (gnome, imp, leprechaun, sprite). (various references) | |
Hungarian | manó (boggle, bogy, brownie, elfin, elves, flibbertigibbet, gnome, goblin, hobgoblin, imp, leprechaun, pigmy, pixie, pixy, pygmy, sprite, troll). (various references) | |
Indonesian | jin (genie, jinn). (various references) | |
Italian | elfo (elfin, sprite), gnomo (dwarf, gnome, Goblin), folletto (bogy, elfin, Goblin, gremlin, hobgoblin, imp, pixie, pixy, sprite). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 仙女 (fairy, nymph), エルピー盤 (aerogram, angel, elbow, Electone, Electra complex, electric, electric guitar, electricity, electroluminescence, electron, electronic, electronic banking, electronic cooking, electronic cottage, electronic file, electronic mail, electronic money, electronic music, electronic office, electronic sound, electronics, elegance, elegant, elegy, element, elementary, elevation, elevator, elm, elocution, elven, encapsulation, enclosure, encode, encoder, encoding, encounter, encyclopedia, engage, engagement, engagement ring, engine, engine brake, engineer, engineering, engineering plastics, enjoy, erect, erection, erogenous zone, Eroica, Eros, erotic, erotic and grotesque, erotic and grotesque nonsense, erotic production, erotica, eroticism, erotism, erotomania, Herman, Hermes, ignition key, long-playing record, LP), 妖精 (fairy, sprite). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せんにゅ (fairy, nymph), せんにょ (fairy, nymph), せんじょ (cutout, cutting off, fairy, nymph), エルフ , ようせい (application, claim, demand, development, fairy, larva, larvae, positivity, premature death, request, sprite, training). (various references) | |
Manx | trollag (dwarf, gnome, pixie, puck, sprite, troll), ferrish (fairy, naughty child; hand-steel), crivassan (dwarf). (various references) | |
Papago | kuhkwul (elf owl). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | elfo (sprite). (various references) | |
Romanian | elf (fairy, Goblin, spirit, sprite), spiriduş (brownie, elfin, elves, familiar, Goblin, hobgoblin, spook, sprite), gnom (fairy, gnome, hobgoblin, sprite). (various references) | |
Russian | эльф (fairy, leprechaun, pixy, puck, sprite). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | patuljak (dwarf, elves, gnome, lilliputian, midget), šumska vila (dryad). (various references) | |
Spanish | duende (brownie, daemon, duende, Goblin, hob, hobgoblin, leprechaun, poltergeist, puck, sprite). (various references) | |
Swedish | älva (fairy), alf (pixie). (various references) | |
Thai | เทพยดา. (various references) | |
Turkish | yaramaz çocuk (hellion, holy terror, limb, puck, terror, urchin), ufak tefek kimse, peri (Faerie, faery, fairy, Fay, genie, Peri, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite), cin gibi çocuk, cin (clever person, demon, Geneva, genie, gin, gnome, Goblin, gremlin, hob, hobgoblin, Hollands, jinnee, puck, sprite, white satin), cüce (dwarf, gnome, ground-, homunculus, hop-o'-my-thumb, lilliputian, manikin, midget, nano-, pigmy, pygmean, pygmy, runt, scrub, scrubby, shrimp, tom thumb). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | єльф, карлик (dwarf, midget, pygmy, shrimp). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mớ tóc rối (elf-lock, elf-locks). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "elf": elfin, elfins, elfish, elfishly, elflike, elflock, elflocks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "elf": bookshelf, delf, herself, himself, hisself, itself, mantelshelf, myself, nonself, oneself, ourself, pelf, self, shelf, thyself, yourself. (additional references) | |
Words containing "elf": angelfish, angelfishes, antiwelfare, barrelful, barrelfuls, belfried, belfries, belfry, damselfish, damselfishes, damselflies, damselfly, delfs, delft, delfts, delftware, delftwares, distelfink, distelfinks, funnelform, pelfs, satchelful, satchelfuls, selfdom, selfdoms, selfed, selfheal, selfheals, selfhood, selfhoods, selfing, selfish, selfishly, selfishness, selfishnesses, selfless, selflessly, selflessness, selflessnesses, selfness, selfnesses, selfs, selfsame, selfsameness, selfsamenesses, selfward, shelfful, shelffuls, shelflike, shovelful, shovelfuls. (additional references) | |
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"Elf" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alf, Celf, eaf, ebl, ecl, Ecld, Eclr, ef, Efb, efff, effi, efg, Efh, efi, Efk, Efls, efm, efo, efp, efx, eif, Eiff, eilf, e'l, Elaf, elafd, Elafi, elb, elc, eld, ele, elef, elfa, elfe, Elfel, elfs, elft, elfy, elg, eli, elo, elp, elq, elt, elu, elv, elx, e'ly, enf, epf, eql, etl, eufa, eulx, evf, exl, glf, Ilf, Ilfc, Kelafo, kelf, lef, lefi, melf, Melfi, Oelf, qef, tefl, ufl, ulf, ulv, vefl, velf, xef, zelf. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "elf" (pronounced e"lf) |
| 3 | e" l f | herself, himself, hisself, itself, myself, oneself, ourself, self, shelf, yourself. |
| 2 | -l f | bookshelf, engulf, golf, Gulf, Ralph, Rolf, Werewolf, wolf. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-l" | |
-1 letter: ef, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-l" | |
+1 letter: alef, clef, delf, feal, feel, fell, felt, file, flea, fled, flee, flew, flex, fley, floe, flue, fuel, leaf, left, lief, life, pelf, self. | |
+2 letters: alefs, clefs, cleft, delfs, delft, elfin, fable, false, farle, fecal, feels, felid, fella, fells, felly, felon, felts, feral, ferly, fetal, feyly, field, filed, filer, files, filet, fille, fjeld, flake, flame, flare, fleam, fleas, fleck, fleer, flees, fleet, flesh, flews, fleys, flied, flier, flies, flite, floes, flued, flues, fluke, flume, flute, flyer, flyte, fuels, fugle, fusel, leafs, leafy, lefts, lefty, lifer, pelfs, refel, refly, rifle, selfs, shelf. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Names: Company Usage 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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