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wood-elf

noun

Etymology

From wood + elf; compare Old English wuduielfen, from wudu (“wood”) + ielfen (“female elf”).

  1. inherited from *h₂elbʰós✻
  2. inherited from *albiz✻
  3. inherited from *albi✻
  4. inherited from ielf
  5. inherited from elf
  6. compounded as wood-elf — “wood + elf”

Definitions

  1. An elf which inhabits woodland, usually depicted as a subrace of elf.

    • This was the chorus of the wood-elves, with which the Moonlight Ball begins.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wood-elf. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA