different between alder vs midmost

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English alder, aller, from Old English alor, from Proto-West Germanic *alu?u, from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alus? (compare Swedish al, Saterland Frisian äller(boom)), variant of *aliz?, *alis? (compare Dutch els, German Erle, Norwegian or), from Proto-Indo-European *h?élis- (compare Hittite [script needed] (alanza(n)), Latin alnus, Latvian al?ksnis, Polish olcha, Albanian halë (“black pine”), Ancient Macedonian (Hesychius) ????? (áliza, “white poplar”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???ld?/
• (US, Canada)
  • (without cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??ld?/
  • (with cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??ld?/

Noun

alder (plural alders)

1. Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of alderman.

Noun

alder (plural alders)

1. An alderman or alderwoman.

Anagrams

• Adler, Alred, Eldar, Leard, Radel, Radle, lader, lared

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish aldær, from Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldr?.

Noun

alder c (singular definite alderen, plural indefinite aldre)

1. age

Inflection

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldr?. Akin to ale (“to raise”), from ala.

Noun

alder m (definite singular alderen, indefinite plural aldere or aldre or aldrer, definite plural alderne or aldrene)

1. age

Derived terms

References

• “alder” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldr?. Akin to ale (“to raise”), from ala.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ld?r/

Noun

alder m (definite singular alderen, indefinite plural aldrar, definite plural aldrane)

1. age

Derived terms

References

• “alder” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse allr, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.

Adjective

alder

1. all
2. whole, complete

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: all

Etymology 2

From Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldr?.

Noun

alder m

1. lifetime
2. age; how old someone or something is
3. age, era
4. old age

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: ålder

English

Etymology

From Old English medemest, superlative of medeme (“middling”), from Proto-Germanic *medumô; the word may be analysed as mid +? -most.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?dm??st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?dmo?st/
• Hyphenation: mid?most

Adjective

midmost (not comparable)

1. In the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle; middlemost
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

     A wide half-circle of foam and glinting lights and shining shoulders of green water, the great weir closed the backwater from bank to bank, troubled all the quiet surface with twirling eddies and floating foam-streaks, and deadened all other sounds with its solemn and soothing rumble. In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder.

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