Where does “ȧlf” come from?

ȧlf (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-West Germanic albi, from Proto-Germanic albī, from Latin Albis, from Latin Albeus.

ȧlf (Old Saxon): elf

Definitions

  1. elf

Ancestry of “ȧlf”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicalbielf, fairy
2Proto-Germanicalbīriver
3LatinAlbis
4LatinAlbeus
Every word from Latin Albeus