elo

elo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for El Molo.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of El Molo terms

elo (plural elos)

1. (chess, other games) Synonym of Elo rating.

• elo boost

• Loe, loe, ole, EOL, LEO, -ole, 'Ole, LoE, OEL, olé, leo, OLE, Leo

From English ale. Compare German Ale, Yiddish עיל (eyl), Russian эль (elʹ), French ale.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelo/
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: e‧lo

elo (accusative singular elon, plural eloj, accusative plural elojn)

1. ale

• biero (“beer”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈelo/, [ˈe̞lo̞]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification^(key): e‧lo
• Hyphenation^(key): elo

From Proto-Finnic *elo (compare Estonian elu, Karelian elo, Livonian jel, Veps elo, Votic elo), equivalent to elää (“to live”) +‎ -o.

elo

1. (chiefly poetic) life, living

   Synonym: elämä

2. life, liveliness, vitality

   Synonym: eloisuus

3. ripe grain, crop

elo

1. abbreviation of elokuu (“August”)

From a Sami language (compare Northern Sami eallu), ultimately from Proto-Samic *ealō.

elo

1. a large herd of reindeer, often thousands of reindeer

• Leo, ole

• “elo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 January 2024

From Old Galician-Portuguese *ãelo, from Latin anellus. Doublet of anel, a borrowing from Occitan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlo̝/

elo m (plural elos)

1. chain link

From Hokkien 汝 (lú).

elo

1. (Jakarta, slang) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

• anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• coen (slang, East Java)
• ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• kamu (intimate)
• ko, kowe (informal, Java)
• kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
• lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

From Proto-Finnic *elo, equivalent to ellää (“to live”) +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish elo and Estonian elu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈelo/, [ˈe̞ɫo̞ˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈelo/, [ˈe̞ɫo̞ˑ]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈelo/, [ˈe̞ɫo̞ˑ]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: e‧lo

elo

1. life
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:

     Senen peräst, jot höö tahtoot
     uutta elloa oppia.

     Because they want
     to try out a new life.

Declension of elo (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	elo	elot
genitive	elon	elloin, eloloin
partitive	elloa	eloja, eloloja
illative	elloo	elloi, eloloihe
inessive	elos	elois, elolois
elative	elost	eloist, eloloist
allative	elolle	eloille, eloloille
adessive	elol	eloil, eloloil
ablative	elolt	eloilt, eloloilt
translative	eloks	eloiks, eloloiks
essive	elonna, elloon	eloinna, eloloinna, elloin, eloloin
exessive1)	elont	eloint, eloloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• elämä

• V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 82
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 30
• Arvo Laanest (1997), Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 24
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[4], →ISBN, page 78

Regional variants of elo

North Karelian (Viena)	elo
South Karelian (Tver)	elo

From Proto-Finnic *elo. Cognate with Finnish elo and Estonian elu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelo/
• Hyphenation: e‧lo

elo (genitive elon, partitive eluo)

1. goods, property
2. (North Karelian) life
3. (North Karelian) crops

Viena Karelian declension of elo (type 1/tyttö, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	elo	elot
genitive	elon	elojen
partitive	eluo	eloja
illative	eloh	eloloih
inessive	elošša	eloloissa
elative	elošta	eloloista
adessive	elolla	eloloilla
ablative	elolta	eloloilta
translative	elokši	eloloiksi
essive	elona	eloloina
comitative	—	eloloineh
abessive	elotta	eloloitta
prolative	—	—
instructive	—	eloloin

Tver Karelian declension of elo (type 1/tyttö no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	elo	elot
genitive	elon	eloloin
partitive	eluo	eloloida
illative	eloh	eloloih
inessive	elošša	eloloissa
elative	elošta	eloloista
adessive	elolla	eloloilla
ablative	elolda	eloloilda
translative	elokši	eloloiksi
essive	elona	eloloina
comitative	elonke	eloloinke
abessive	elotta	eloloitta
prolative	eločči	eloloičči
instructive	—	eloloin

Possessive forms of elo
1st person	eloni
2nd person	eloš
3rd person	eloh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

• A. V. Punzhina (1994), “elo”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999), “elo”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *elo, equivalent to eliä (“to live”) +‎ -o. Cognate with Finnish elo and Estonian elu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelo/
• Hyphenation: e‧lo
• Rhymes: -elo

elo

1. life

Declension of elo (Type 8/ruado, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	elo	elot
genitive	elon	eloloin
partitive	eluo	eloloi
illative	eloh	eloloih
inessive	elos	elolois
elative	elospäi	eloloispäi
allative	elole	eloloile
adessive	elol	eloloil
ablative	elolpäi	eloloilpäi
translative	elokse	eloloikse
essive	elonnu	eloloinnu
abessive	elottah	eloloittah
comitative	elonke	eloloinke
instructive		eloloin
prolative	eloči

• Tatjana Boiko (2019), Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 34

• lo (choice depends chiefly on intonation)

From Middle High German aldā (“right there”), from al + dā (Luxembourgish all + do). Compare Dutch aldaar, archaic German allda.

• IPA^(key): /eˈlo/, [əˈloː]

• Audio:

  (file)

elo

1. now

   Ech wëll elo heemgoen.

   I want to go home now.

2. (now only with demonstratives) right here; right there

   Dat elo ass eng Schëpp.

   This right here is a shovel.

• IPA^(key): /ē.lō/

elo (plural elozhì)

1. kob antelope (Kobus kob)

   Synonym: elogi

• IPA^(key): /è.lō/

èlo

1. trunk (of an elephant)

• IPA^(key): /ē.lō/

elo (plural elozhì)

1. locust bean fruit (Parkia biglobosa)

• lon̄ci (“locust bean tree”)

• lòǹgòrò (“empty locust fruit pods”)
• kúlà (“fermented locust bean paste”)

• IPA^(key): /è.lò/

èlò

1. debt; credit

   Synonym: gbàtà

• IPA^(key): /è.ló/

èló (plural èlózhì)

1. slate; tablet (for writing)

• IPA^(key): /è.ló/

èló (plural èlózhì)

1. gore; gusset (in clothing)

Borrowed from English hello. It is said to have been either coined or popularised by a Polish hip-hop group Molesta Ewenement in the mid-late 1990s.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.lɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛlɔ
• Syllabification: e‧lo
• Homophone: Elo

elo

1. (slang) hi

   Synonyms: cześć, hej, siema

• elo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese *ãelo, from Latin ānellus, diminutive of anus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”). See also the doublet anel, borrowed from Occitan.

elo m (plural elos)

1. link
   • (Can we date this quote?), Paulo Leminski, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Amar é um elo
     entre o azul
     e o amarelo

     To love is a link
     between the blue /
     and the yellow

• “elo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

• êlu

elo (plural elos)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism, informal) they, them (singular) (a gender-neutral or genderqueer singular third-person personal pronoun)
   • 2021 March 17, André Fischer, “Linguagem neutra [Neutral language]”, in Manual ampliado de linguagem inclusiva [Extended inclusive language manual]‎^[5], Matrix Editora:

     […] sistemas que usam diferentes pronomes - principalmente ile, ili, elo e elu. […]

     […] systems that use different pronouns, - mainly ile, ili, elo and elu. […]

• “elo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “elo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• eło, éło, élo

From Latin ille or illum. Compare Italian egli.

elo

1. he

From Proto-Finnic *elo.

elo

1. life

Inflection of elo (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.	elo
genitive sing.	elon
partitive sing.	elod
partitive plur.	eloid
	singular	plural
nominative	elo	elod
accusative	elon	elod
genitive	elon	eloiden
partitive	elod	eloid
essive-instructive	elon	eloin
translative	eloks	eloikš
inessive	elos	eloiš
elative	elospäi	eloišpäi
illative	elho eloho	eloihe
adessive	elol	eloil
ablative	elolpäi	eloilpäi
allative	elole	eloile
abessive	elota	eloita
comitative	elonke	eloidenke
prolative	elodme	eloidme
approximative I	elonno	eloidenno
approximative II	elonnoks	eloidennoks
egressive	elonnopäi	eloidennopäi
terminative I	elhosai elohosai	eloihesai
terminative II	elolesai	eloilesai
terminative III	elossai	—
additive I	elhopäi elohopäi	eloihepäi
additive II	elolepäi	eloilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “быт, жизнь, положение”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[6], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *elo. Compare Estonian elu, Finnish elo.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈelo/, [ˈeɫo]
• (Jõgõperä) IPA^(key): /ˈelo/, [ˈeɫo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: e‧lo

elo

1. life

   Synonym: eläme

Declension of elo (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	elo	elod
genitive	elo	elojõ, eloi
partitive	elloa	eloitõ, eloi
illative	ellosõ, ello	eloisõ
inessive	eloz	eloiz
elative	elossõ	eloissõ
allative	elolõ	eloilõ
adessive	elollõ	eloillõ
ablative	eloltõ	eloiltõ
translative	elossi	eloissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “elo”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɛlɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈeːlɔ/, /ˈɛlɔ/

elo

1. (literary) third-person singular present subjunctive of mynd

• êl

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [êːlo]

êlo

1. that; class 5 distal demonstrative.