עלף 1
'eleven'

ETYMOLOGY

Got. ainlif, ON ellifu, OE endleofan, endlufon, English eleven, OHG einlif, einlef, MHG einlif, eilf, NHG elf; from PGmc ✱ainalifa-; from PIE ✱Hoi-Hno-lipo (NEUR) 'one past ten'; perhaps a relic of a lost language spoken in Northern Europe; close to Lithuanian vienuõ-lika '

WESTERN

Holland (Netherlands)

Aalf (< MHG eilf, einlif) {HOLLAND, Beem, Jerosche}
- E jiddische honderttousend is aalfhondert soof (pronounced as Dutch zoof). 'A Yiddish hundred thousand is eleven hundred gulden. Self-mockery of the Jewish tendency to exaggerate. Hundred thousand is 100 + 1000.' {Jerosche №357}

Oyberland (West Transcarpathian)

ęlvɒ ~ ęlf {WTCP, Budapest, Hutterer 1965: 137}

CENTRAL

Unterland (East Transcarpathian)

ɛ́ləf {ETCP, Nyzhnya Apsha, 48233}

ɛ́lʲəvazájgɛ עלף אַ זייגער {POLAND, Wolbrom, 50196}

HASIDIC

AMERICA

nux ˈɛləv jur נאָך עלעף יאָר

NORTHEASTERN

העלף ~ עלף {סוּוואַלק}

Lithuania

elf {LITHUANIA, Vilnius, 54257}