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else

  [els]
Use elsest in a Sentence
–adjective
1. other than the persons or things mentioned or implied: What else could I have done?
2. in addition to the persons or things mentioned or implied: Who else was there?
3. other or in addition (used in the possessive following an indefinite pronoun): someone else's money.
–adverb
4. if not (usually prec. by or): It's a macaw, or else I don't know birds.
5. in some other way; otherwise: How else could I have acted?
6. at some other place or time: Where else might I find this book?
—Idiom
7. or else, or suffer the consequences: Do what I say, or else.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE elles (c. OHG elles), equiv. to ell- other (c. Goth aljis, L alius, OIr aile Gk állos, Armenian ayl other; cf. eldritch ) + -es -s1

Usage note:
The possessive forms of somebody else, everybody else, etc., are somebody else's, everybody else's, the forms somebody's else, everybody's else being considered nonstandard in present-day English. One exception is the possessive for who else, which is occasionally formed as whose else when a noun does not immediately follow: Is this book yours? Whose else could it be? No, it's somebody else's.
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Word Origin & History

else 
O.E. elles "other, otherwise, different," from P.Gmc. *aljaz (cf. Goth. aljis "other," O.H.G. eli-lenti, O.E. el-lende, both meaning "in a foreign land;" see also Alsace), an adverbial genitive of the neut. of PIE base *al- "beyond" (cf. Gk. allos "other," L. alius; see alias). Synonym of other, the nuances of usage are often arbitrary. Elsewhere is O.E. elles hwær. It survived, but elsewhen (1418), elsewhat (O.E.), elsewho (c.1542) did not.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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