Etymology

elsin

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Today it means: A shoemaker's awl. Full definition →

Middle English aslen ← Middle Dutch elsene ← Old High German alansa
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*alasnō
  2. Old High German · derived fromalansa
  3. Middle Dutch · derived fromelsene
  4. Middle English · inherited fromaslen
  5. English todayelsin

From Middle English aslen, elsen (“an awl or some other pointed instrument or tool”), either from Middle Dutch elsene, alsene, from Old High German alansa, from Proto-Germanic *alasnō, or from an unrecorded Old English form.

Words from the same roots

Middle Dutchelsene all →

Elsonelsen

Proto-Germanic*alasnō all →

Elsonelsen

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.