elsen

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*alasnō
2. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*alisnu
3. Old Dutch · derived from*elisna
4. Middle Dutch · derived fromelsene
5. Middle English · inherited fromelsen
6. English todayelsen

From Middle English elsen, elsyn, alsene (“an awl or some other pointed instrument or tool”), either from Middle Dutch elsene, alsene, from Old Dutch *elisna, *alasna, from Proto-West Germanic *alisnu, *alasnu, from Proto-Germanic *alasnō, or from an unrecorded Old English form.

Words from the same roots