Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist. · To strike with the elbow. · To nudge, jostle or push. · To force (someone) to quit or lose their job so that someone else can be hired.
The joint between the upper arm and the forearm. · Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent. · A detective. · Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
From Middle English elbowe (“elbow”), from Old English elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell + bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål albue (“elbow”), Norwegian Nynorsk olboge (“elbow”), Faroese albogi, Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”), Swedish armbåge (“elbow”).
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- Root classification mention*Heh₃l-ine-pro
- Root classification mention*bʰewgʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionelboweenm
- Inherited-form mentionelbogaang
- Inherited-form mention*alinabugôgem-pro
- Compound componentellen
- Compound componentbowen
- Cognate mentionelbucksco
- Cognate mentionÄlboogestq
- Cognate mentionelleboognl
- Cognate mentionEllebagends
- Cognate mentionEllbogende
- Cognate mentionolbogenn
- Cognate mentionalbogifo
- Cognate mentionolbogiis
- Cognate mentionarmbågesv
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