Get to know Elu better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning.
Elu in a sentence
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Elu meaning
the ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE.
Using Elu
- The main meaning on this page is: the ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE.
Context around Elu
- Average sentence length in these examples: 36.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Elu
- In this selection, "elu" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 36.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, king, world, thingol, marss and vehicle stand out and add context to how "elu" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aeroplane ụgbọ elu vehicle via and grandfather king elu thingol and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "elu" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with elu
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After Galadriel came to Middle-earth, she was staying with the brother of her maternal grandfather, King Elu Thingol, and his wife, Melian the Maia, in Doriath. (27 words)
That was a case where Ms Elu’s “new” evidence of fraud was in her possession at the time of the original trial but she had not put it before the court. (32 words)
Deshpande, pg. 36-37 Unusual Prakrits appear in the margins of the Prakritic world: Elu in Sri Lanka and Gāndhārī Prakrit in Gandhara and Central Asia both have unusual phonological and grammatical changes not found in other Prakrits. (38 words)
The group, MTÜ Elu Marss ("march for life") has been in existence for about four months and during that time has organized one anti-abortion march, which took place in late August in Tallinn, ETV news show "Aktuaalne kaamera" (AK) reported Monday evening. (43 words)
Another example is train (ụgbọ igwe), which comes from the words ụgbọ (vehicle, craft) and igwe (iron, metal); thus a locomotive train is vehicle via iron (rails); a car, ụgbọ ala; vehicle via land and an aeroplane ụgbọ elu; vehicle via air. (42 words)
Deshpande, pg. 36-37 Unusual Prakrits appear in the margins of the Prakritic world: Elu in Sri Lanka and Gāndhārī Prakrit in Gandhara and Central Asia both have unusual phonological and grammatical changes not found in other Prakrits. (38 words)
Example sentences (5)
After Galadriel came to Middle-earth, she was staying with the brother of her maternal grandfather, King Elu Thingol, and his wife, Melian the Maia, in Doriath.
That was a case where Ms Elu’s “new” evidence of fraud was in her possession at the time of the original trial but she had not put it before the court.
The group, MTÜ Elu Marss ("march for life") has been in existence for about four months and during that time has organized one anti-abortion march, which took place in late August in Tallinn, ETV news show "Aktuaalne kaamera" (AK) reported Monday evening.
Another example is train (ụgbọ igwe), which comes from the words ụgbọ (vehicle, craft) and igwe (iron, metal); thus a locomotive train is vehicle via iron (rails); a car, ụgbọ ala; vehicle via land and an aeroplane ụgbọ elu; vehicle via air.
Deshpande, pg. 36-37 Unusual Prakrits appear in the margins of the Prakritic world: Elu in Sri Lanka and Gāndhārī Prakrit in Gandhara and Central Asia both have unusual phonological and grammatical changes not found in other Prakrits.