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elver

/ˈɛlvə(ɹ)/

elver noun: a young eel.

Noun

elver (plural elvers)

  1. A young eel.
    • When these glass eels enter freshwater they transform again into elvers – miniature versions of the adult eels.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 69

elver meaning in Tamil

elver in Tamil

விலாங்குக் குட்டி

Forms of elver

pluralelvers

Origin of elver

Variant of eelfare, originally "brood of young eels", from Middle English *elfare, *elvare, from el (“eel”) + fare (“group of journeyers”). Equivalent to eel + fare. Liberman instead connects the second element of this word to a putative Old English suffix *-for(e), but there is no need to posit such a suffix when the traditional etymology suffices. Furthermore, such a suffix is not securely attested, and the spelling of the word's earliest attestation (as yele fare, ell vare) implies Middle English /aː/.

Questions about elver

What does elver mean?
Elver means a young eel.
What is elver in Tamil?
Elver in Tamil is விலாங்குக் குட்டி. See Elver meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is elver?
Elver is a noun.
How do you pronounce elver?
Elver is pronounced /ˈɛlvə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of elver?
The plural of elver is elvers.

Words near elver in the dictionary

  1. elven
  2. elvendom
  3. elvenfolk
  4. elvenkind
  5. elvens
  6. elver
  7. elvers
  8. Elverta
  9. Elverum
  10. elves
  11. elvess

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elver (page history and authors); elver (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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