elo

elo (plural elos)

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

• elo boost

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈelo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: 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

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

elo

1. (poetic) life
2. (dated) ripe grain, crop

• (life): elämä
• (crop): sato
• (corn): vilja

• adjectives: elollinen, eloton
• verbs: elostella

• elohopea
• elokuu
• elokuva
• elonkorjuu
• eloperäinen
• elosalama
• hiljaiselo

elo

1. Abbreviation of elokuu (“August”).

From a Sami language.

elo

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

• Leo, ole

From an older 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/, [ˈe̞ɫo̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈelo/, [ˈe̞ɫo̞]
• 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.

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 82
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 30
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 78

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 (genitive elon, partitive eluo)

1. life

• 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]

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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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.lɔ/

• Audio

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

elo

1. (slang) hi

   Synonyms: cześć, hej

• elo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• elo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old 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 Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.

elo (plural elos)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism) 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]‎, Matrix Editora:

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

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

• eło, éło, élo

From Latin ille or illum. Compare Italian egli.

elo

1. he

From Proto-Finnic *elo.

elo

1. life

• elotada
• kodielo
• üksjaiželo
• eloku
• elorad
• elostarin
• elotoimišt
• elovägi
• elonaigaine
• elonaigaks
• elonkirjutai
• elonnavedii
• elonnavedind
• elontaholine
• elonvero

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

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

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

elo

1. life

   Synonym: eläme

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎, 2 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.