-else
Danish
Etymology
From -ilse, later -ælsæ, from Old Saxon -isli, -islo. Also used to represent the Middle Low German suffix -nisse.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-else c (singular definite -elsen, plural indefinite -elser, plural definite -elserne)
- added to a verb to form a noun for an action or process
- the result of, or something related to, such an action or process
Synonyms
Derived terms
Low German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Low German -else, from Old Saxon -isli, -islo; from Proto-Germanic *-isliją. Cognate with Dutch -sel, Swedish -else, Old English -else.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-else n
- Creating, from a verb, a noun which is created by the action of this verb (not necessarily one with which the verb is supposed to be done).
- Backelse (“pastry”): that which is baked (in a wider sense anything baked like bread and cakes) — from backen (“to bake”)
- Radelse (“riddle”): that which is guessed — from raden (“to guess”); compare German Rätsel, Dutch raadsel, Old English rǣdelse
- Riemelse (“rhyme”): that which is rhymed — from riemen (“to rhyme”)
Middle Low German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Saxon -isli, from Proto-Germanic *-isliją.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-else
- Creating a noun from a verb, denoting something on which the verb is performed.
- ên backelse
- a baked good; literally 'that which is created by baking'
- Creating a noun from a verb, denoting an object which is used to perform the verb.
- ên deckelse
- a cover, a roof, a wrapping; literally 'that which is used to cover'
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Saxon -isli, -islo. Also used to represent the Middle Low German suffix -nisse.
Suffix
-else
- added to a verb to form a noun for an action or process
- the result of, or something related to, such an action or process
Derived terms
References
- “-else” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
A metathetic form of Proto-Germanic *-isliją, from Proto-Germanic *-is-, a noun particle + Proto-Germanic *-lij-, a verbal particle. More at -sian, -lian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-else f
- (feminine suffix for inanimate objects) suffix creating nouns from verbs
Declension
Synonyms
Descendants
- English -le
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Saxon -isli, -islo. Also used to represent the Middle Low German suffix -nisse.
Suffix
-else
- creating nouns from verbs
Derived terms
- Danish terms derived from Old Saxon
- Danish terms derived from Middle Low German
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
- Danish suffixes
- Danish common-gender suffixes
- Low German terms inherited from Middle Low German
- Low German terms derived from Middle Low German
- Low German terms derived from Old Saxon
- Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Low German terms with IPA pronunciation
- Low German lemmas
- Low German suffixes
- Low German neuter suffixes
- Middle Low German terms inherited from Old Saxon
- Middle Low German terms derived from Old Saxon
- Middle Low German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle Low German terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle Low German lemmas
- Middle Low German suffixes
- Middle Low German terms with usage examples
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Saxon
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Middle Low German
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål suffixes
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English suffixes
- Old English feminine suffixes
- Old English feminine n-stem nouns
- Swedish terms derived from Old Saxon
- Swedish terms derived from Middle Low German
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish suffixes