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Webster 1913 Edition


Elve

Elve

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Noun.
An old form of Elf.

Definition 2024


elve

elve

See also: élve

English

Noun

elve (plural elves)

  1. (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity
    • 2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges:
      It is ikely that the first elve was recorded with the Space Shuttle low-light camera.
  2. Obsolete form of elf.
    Sir Olof he rode out at early day, / And so came he unto an Elve-dance gay.

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Hungarian

Etymology

elv + -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛlvɛ]
  • Hyphenation: el‧ve

Noun

elve

  1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of elv

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative elve
accusative elvét
dative elvének
instrumental elvével
causal-final elvéért
translative elvévé
terminative elvéig
essive-formal elveként
essive-modal elvéül
inessive elvében
superessive elvén
adessive elvénél
illative elvébe
sublative elvére
allative elvéhez
elative elvéből
delative elvéről
ablative elvétől