Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

elle-folk

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

Syllables: elle--folk
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Example Sentences

""We're none of the elle-folk who dance in the hills and weave fates, ye mun go to them for that.""
"Still the Elle-folk are often mentioned in the legends he proceeds to give as inhabiting houes, notwithstanding an explicit opening statement that they ‘dwell in the Elle-mosses,’ and notwithstanding the fact also that the so-called Elle-kone of the houes seems evidently to want the hollow back."
"The ellefolk live in mosses, banks and mounds, under alder-trees and in alder-thickets."

Etymology

From Danish ellefolk.

Origin

Source language: Danish

Word Breakdown

Root: ellefolk

Questions

What does elle-folk mean?: elle-people
Where does elle-folk come from?: It is traced to Danish.

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