Submitted Name
Gender Feminine
Usage English
Other Forms FormsAllender or Elender
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Contributor Contrib.anonymous on 11/12/2018
Meaning & History
A nickname for a stranger or newcomer, from Middle High German ellende ‘strange’, ‘foreign’, or a habitational name for someone from any of twenty places named Elend, denoting a remote settlement, as for example in the Harz Mountains or in Carinthia, Austria.