Maschile

Erlkönig

Senso

Concetti

(Inglese)

(European, masculine, strong) erlking
(masculine, slang, strong) car prototype

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈɛʁlˌkøːnɪç/

Calque of Danish ellerkonge (“king of the elves”), in which eller- was misinterpreted as German Low German Eller (“alder”), and which was thus translated into standard German as Erlkönig (Erle + König). This form was spread by Goethe’s famous poem, Erlkönig (1782). German Low German Eller is from Middle Low German elre, from Old Saxon elis.