Alf

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See also: alf, ALF, älf, and 'alf

English

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Pronunciation

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Alf

  1. A diminutive of the male given names Alfred or Alfonso, from the Germanic languages.

Noun

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Alf (plural Alfs)

  1. (Australia, slang, derogatory) An uncultured Australian.
    • 1973, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, Reference, Broadcasting and Television: Official Hansard Report (page 1076)
      Martin Sharp once described Sydney's western suburbs to me hazily as 'where the Alfs live'.
    • 2009, Michelle Arrow, Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945, page 96:
      Oz savaged suburbia as a wasteland of consumerism and conformity, peopled with 'Alfs' []
    • 2016, Jon Piccini, Transnational Protest, Australia and the 1960s, page 74:
      Coote ended his piece with the claim that “[t]he Australian Alfs are beyond redemption”, and as such only small groups of militant aligned students and workers posed a real challenge to the system.

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse Alfr, alfr (elf), with an identical meaning in modern Danish. Also a medieval contraction of Adolf, and later used as a pet form of Alfred.

Proper noun

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Alf

  1. a male given name from Old Norse

Etruscan

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Romanization

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Alf

  1. Romanization of 𐌀𐌋𐌅

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse Alfr. Also a contraction of Adolf.

Proper noun

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Alf

  1. a male given name from Old Norse
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References

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  • Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
  • [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 8 803 males with the given name Alf living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old Norse Alfr where <f> has been misinterpreted as /f/. Compare the inherited Alv and alv. Also a contraction of Adolf.

Proper noun

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Alf m

  1. a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Alv
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References

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  • Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
  • [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 8 803 males with the given name Alf living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse Alfr. Also a contraction of Adolf.

Proper noun

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Alf c (genitive Alfs)

  1. a male given name from Old Norse
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