adel

From Dutch adel, from Middle Dutch adel, from Old Dutch *athal, from Proto-Germanic *aþalą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.dəl/

adel (uncountable)

1. nobility, aristocracy

From Middle Dutch adel, from Old Dutch *athal, from Proto-Germanic *aþalą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːdəl/

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• Hyphenation: adel
• Rhymes: -aːdəl

adel m (uncountable)

1. nobility

• adelen
• adellijk
• adelstand

• Afrikaans: adel

• dale, lade

adel

1. First-person singular present of adeln.
2. Imperative singular of adeln.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ̀ːdel/

Formally, the word is the same as Old Norse aðal, but the meaning is derived from Middle Low German adel; compare modern German Adel.

adel m (definite singular adelen, uncountable)

1. nobility

• adle

• Falk, Hjalmar; Torp, Alf (1903–06) Etymologisk ordbog over det norske og det danske sprog [Etymological Dictionary of the Norwegian and Danish Languages]

From Old Norse aðal.

adel m

1. (dialectal) heartwood

• kjerneved

• Ivar Aasen, Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, 1850.
• “adel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːdɛl/

adel m (definite singular adelen, indefinite plural adlar, definite plural adlane)

1. nobility

• adle

• “adel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish adel, borrowed from or influenced by Middle Low German adel (“noble descent; nobility”), from Old Saxon athal, from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (whence also Old Swedish aþal-)[1] [2]. Related to German Adel and English athel. Compare also Icelandic aðall (“nobility”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːdɛl/

adel c (uncountable)

1. nobility, aristocracy.

   Den svenska adeln har idag inga särskilda privilegier.

   Today the Swedish nobility has no special privileges.

• ädel
• ädling

• adel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)

• leda
• dela
• lade

adel (plural adels)

1. today

• adelo
• adelo gödiko

• ädelo
• ädelo gödiko
• del
• kronamadel
• läbadel
• odelo gödiko