alder

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• UK: [ˈɔː.ldə]
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• US: [ˈɑl.dɚ]
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• UK: /ˈɔːldə/
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• /ˈɔldɚ/ without the cot–caught merger
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈɑldɚ/
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• CMU ARPABET: AO1 L D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English aldre, alder, aller, from Old English alor, from Proto-West Germanic *aluʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō, *alizō, *alisō.

Clipping of alderman.

125 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abaza: алтӏа́ (altʼá) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Abaza: алчӏвы́ (alćwʼə́) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Abkhaz: ал (al) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Albanian: verr — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Arabic: جَار الْمَاء (jār al-māʔ) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Arabic: نَغْت (naḡt) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Armenian: լաստենի (lasteni) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Aromanian: anin (roa-rup) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Aromanian: arin (roa-rup) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Azerbaijani: qızılağac — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Bashkir: ерек (yerek) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Basque: haltz — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Belarusian: вольха (vólʹxa) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Breton: gwern — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Bulgarian: елша (elša) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Catalan: vern — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Chechen: маъ (maʔ) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Chinese Mandarin: 榿 /桤 (qī) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Chinese Mandarin: 赤楊 /赤杨 (chìyáng) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Chinook Jargon: is-sick stick — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Chinook Jargon: phil skin-stik — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• East Circassian: екӏэпцӏэ (jekʼɛpcʼɛ) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• West Circassian: екӏапцӏ (jekʼapcʼ) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Czech: olše — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Danish: el — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Dutch: els — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Erzya: лепе (lepe) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Esperanto: alno — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Estonian: lepp — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Faroese: elri — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Faroese: ølur — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Finnish: leppä — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• French: aulne — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• French: verne — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Friulian: âl — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Galician: amieiro — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Galician: ameneiro — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Galician: abeneiro — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Galician: arche — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Georgian: თხმელა (txmela) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Georgian: მურყანი (murq̇ani) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• German: Erle — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• German: Eller — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• German: Erlenbaum — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Greek: άλνος (álnos) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Greek: σκλήθρα (sklíthra) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Greek: σκλήθρο (sklíthro) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Ancient Greek: κλήθρα (klḗthra) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Greenlandic: palleq — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Hungarian: éger — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Icelandic: elri — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Icelandic: ölur — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Ingrian: leppä — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Ingush: миинг (miı̇ng) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Irish: fearnóg — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Old Irish: fern — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Italian: ontano — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Japanese: 榿 (hannoki) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Kaitag: ми́гъва (míɣva) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Kaitag: минтӏин (minṭin) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Kashubian: òlsza — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Kazakh: қандыағаш (qandyağaş) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Ladin: aunëi — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Latin: alnus — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Latvian: alksnis — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Laz: თხომუ (txomu) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Laz: ფშქველა (pşkvela) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Lithuanian: alksnis — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Low German: Eller — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Low German: Els — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Macedonian: евла (evla) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Manx: farney — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Manx: farney — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Eastern Mari: нӧлпӧ (nölpö) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Western Mari: лӱлпӹ (lülpÿ) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Mazanderani: توسکا (tuskā) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Megleno-Romanian: rin — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Middle English: aldre — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Mingrelian: თხუმუ (txumu) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Nahuatl: Īlītl — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Norman: aune — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Norwegian Bokmål: or — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Norwegian Bokmål: older — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Norwegian Nynorsk: or — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Norwegian Nynorsk: older — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Occitan: vèrn — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Ojibwe: wadoop — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Old English: alor — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Old Norse: ǫlr — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Old Norse: elri — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Old Norse: elrir — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Old Norse: órir — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Pannonian Rusyn: иваново древо (ivanovo drevo) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Persian: توسکا (tuskâ) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Persian: رزدار (razdâr) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Polish: olcha — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Polish: olsza — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Portuguese: amieiro — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Romanian: arin — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Romanian: anin — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Russian: ольха́ (olʹxá) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Kildin-Sami: ле̄һпь (liehp’) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Sardinian: abiu — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Sardinian: alinu — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Sardinian: altzu — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Scots: aller — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Scottish Gaelic: feàrna — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Scottish Gaelic: crann-fèarna — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Serbo-Croatian: joha — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Serbo-Croatian: jova — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Slovak: jelša — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Slovene: jelša — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Lower Sorbian: wólša — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Upper Sorbian: wólša — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Spanish: aliso — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Svan: ბალყა̈ჩ (balq̇äč) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Swedish: al — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Tagalog: aliso — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Turkish: kızılağaç — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Ottoman Turkish: قزل آغاج (kızıl ağaç) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Udmurt: лулпу (lulpu) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Ukrainian: вільха (vilʹxa) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Venetan: onaro — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Welsh: gwernen — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus
• Yiddish: אָלכע (olkhe) — any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus