Erle

A rare spelling variant of Earl.

Erle

1. A male given name from English.
2. A surname.

• LREE, Reel, leer, reel

From Middle High German erle, from Old High German erila, from Proto-West Germanic *aliʀu, from Proto-Germanic *alizō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis-.

Compare Dutch els, English alder, Danish el, Norwegian older, Icelandic elri.

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Erle f (genitive Erle, plural Erlen)

1. alder

• erlen (“aldern”)

• Elsbeere

• “Erle” in Duden online
• “Erle” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Short form of Germanic compound names beginning with Erl- (German Erlinde, etc.), also seen as a modern feminine form of Erling and Jarl (“earl”).

Erle

1. a female given name

• [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 1089 females with the given name Erle living in Norway on January 1st 2014, with the frequency peak in the 2000s decade. Accessed on July 11th, 2014.