köken: From Middle High German erle, from Old High German erila, from Proto-West Germanic *aliʀu, from Proto-Germanic *alizō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis-. Compare Dutch els, English alder, Danish el, Norwegian older, Icelandic elri.
betulaceous tree, alder or birch (whereof the disyllables more often alder and the monosyllables birch) · mountain ash, rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
çekim: çoğul توسکاها
köken: Borrowed from Mazanderani توسکا (tuskā), تسکا (teskā), توسا (tusā), تسا (tosā, “alder”). Apparently ultimately Mongolic, Mongolian хус (xus, “birch”), with the ending ـا (-â) as in many Mongolic nouns auslauting in -аа (-aa); correspondingly, Persian قان (qân, “birch”) is from Turkic.
köken: From Middle Dutch else, from Old Dutch *alisa, from Frankish *alisu, from Proto-Germanic *alisō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis-. Compare German Erle, English alder, Danish el, Norwegian older, Icelandic elri.
köken: From Old Swedish al, from Old Norse ǫlr (compare Icelandic elri, Danish el, Norwegian older), from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō (compare English alder), variant of *alizō, *alisō (compare Dutch els, German Erle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisos.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *olьxa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éliseh₂, from *h₂élis-. Cognate with Belarusian во́льха (vólʹxa), Bulgarian елха́ (elhá), Polish olcha.
alder (any of the trees in the genus Alnus) · grey alder (Alnus incana) · blood
çekim: çoğul lepät · tamlayan lepän
köken: From Proto-Finnic *leppä (compare Estonian lepp, Veps lep), possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic *léiˀpāˀ (“linden tree”) (compare Latvian liepa), if the Finnic and Baltic words are not of common substrate origin. Also related to Erzya лепе (lepe). * (blood): Euphemistic; refers to the fact that the wood of the alder tree turns red when cut.
köken: From Old Norse elri (“alder”), cf. ǫlr (compare Icelandic elri, Swedish al, Norwegian Bokmål older), from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō (compare English alder), variant of *alizō, *alisō (compare Dutch els, German Erle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisos.
alder (species of tree of the genus Alnus, esp. A. glutinosa or A. incana)
çekim: çoğul alkšņi · tamlayan alkšņa
köken: From Proto-Baltic *el(i)sni̯a, *al(i)sni̯a (with an epenthetic k between the l and the s), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis- with a suffix -nyo, from the root *el-, *ol-, *h₂él- “reddish brown color.” Cognates include Lithuanian al̃ksnis, dialectal el̃ksnis, Old Prussian abskande (= [aliskande] < *al(i)skands < *al(i)skans < *al(i)skṇs < *al(i)ksnas), Proto-Slavic *elьxa < *elisā (Russian ольха́…