different between elsa vs ella

Italian

Etymology

From Lombardic *hilza, from Proto-Germanic *helt?, *helt?, from Proto-Indo-European *kel-. Cognate with English hilt, Icelandic hjilt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?el.sa/
• Hyphenation: él?sa

Noun

elsa f (plural else)

1. hilt (of a sword)
2. crossguard

Anagrams

• lesa, sale

References

• elsa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronoun

ella

1. she

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronoun

ella

1. she

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan elha, ela, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?e.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?e.?a/

Pronoun

ella (plural elles)

1. she

Declension

Corsican

Alternative forms

• edda, illa, idda

Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian ella and Spanish ella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?a/
• Hyphenation: el?la

Pronoun

ella f

1. she
2. her (disjunctive)

See also

References

• “ella, illa, edda, idda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??tla]

Conjunction

ella

1. or

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse ella, shortened from earlier elliga. Compare ellegar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??tla/
• Rhymes: -?tla

Adverb

ella

1. else, or else, otherwise

Synonyms

• (else): annars, ellegar

Conjunction

ella

1. (obsolete) or

Synonyms

• (or): eða, ellegar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine of ille (“that”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?el.la/
• Hyphenation: él?la

Pronoun

ella f (plural elle, archaic plural elleno)

1. (literary, subject form) she

   Synonym: lei

Usage notes

The term has largely fallen out of use in the spoken language, in favour of the oblique form lei.

See also

Anagrams

• alle

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *?alnati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?el?a/

Verb

·ella

1. unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs

Derived terms

It is not easy to clearly distinguish between derivatives of this root and derivatives of ·lá (from Proto-Celtic *layeti). See fo·ceird for derivatives of ·lá.

Mutation

Portuguese

Pronoun

ella f

1. Obsolete spelling of ela

Sotho

Verb

ella

1. to move towards

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ella (plural ellas)

1. she, her (used subjectively and after prepositions)
2. it (used subjectively and after prepositions to refer to feminine nouns)

Related terms

• él

See also