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El
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Appendix:Variations of "el"
Translingual
Symbol
exa liter litre fluid measure
English
El (god)
Pronunciation
en /ɛl/ [ɛɫ]
en en-us-el.ogg US
en en-uk-l.ogg UK
en ɛl 1
en el ell Elle -elle L
Etymology 1
From en hbo אֵל ʾēl.
Proper noun
Any of several major ancient Near East deities, including the supreme god of the Canaanite religion, but especially the supreme Hebrew God.
Howl (poem) Howl 9 who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,
Related terms
en Elistic, en Eloah, en Elohim
Etymology 2
en elevated.
Proper noun
s
en Q1601555 en transport slang Any one of several specific elevated railways.
en The Washington Street Elevated Washington Street El was torn down in 1987.
en 1955 July The Last Elevated Line in New York Railway Magazine 444 Known colloquially as the "El," the elevated lines constituted the earliest attempt to remove urban passenger traffic from the streets.
Related terms
en L
Etymology 3
Proper noun
en unisex, often used as a nickname.
en Amy Harmon Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/us/nonbinary-drivers-licenses.html 2019-05-29 Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary. https://web.archive.org/web/20190608042105/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/us/nonbinary-drivers-licenses.html
Anagrams
en el -le LE Le LαE le
Tocharian B
Etymology
Possibly from an txb ug - word meaning "stem". txb
Proper noun
txb proper noun ?
txb
Further reading
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