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Elsen

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An awl, a pointed tool. UK, dialectal

    "piercing with an elsen"

Etymology

From Middle English elsen, elsyn, alsene (“an awl or some other pointed instrument or tool”), either from Middle Dutch elsene, alsene, from Old Dutch *elisna, *alasna, from Proto-West Germanic *alisnu, *alasnu, from Proto-Germanic *alasnō, or from an unrecorded Old English form.

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