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Old English elren (alter)
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Old English ellæn (alter)
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Middle English ellen (link)
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Middle English ellern (link)
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Middle English eldre (link)
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Middle English eldrn (link)
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Middle English elder (link)
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Proto-West Germanic *alljan (inherited)
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Old High German ellan (cognate)
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Icelandic elja (cognate)
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Old Norse eljan (cognate)
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Old Saxon ellan (cognate)
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English ellen (inherited)
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English elne (inherited)
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Middle English ellen (inherited)
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Middle English elne (inherited)
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Icelandic elja (cognate)
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Old Norse elska (cognate)
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Old Norse eljan (cognate)
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Old Norse eljun (cognate)