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Clipping of English English.

eng

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for English.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of English terms

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛŋ

Probably from Dutch eng (“narrow”), also compare Old English enge (“narrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *angī, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *anguz.

No mention of the word is found in any surviving Middle English text, save for the Middle English compound word ang-nail. Related to Dutch eng (“narrow”), German eng (“narrow”), Low German enj (“confined, narrow”), Luxembourgish enk (“narrow”).

eng

1. (regional, obsolete) Narrow.

   The hole was too eng for him to get through.

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• The Middle English Dictionary
• bosworthtoller.com

Probably created by analogy with other names for nasal consonants em (m) and en (n).

eng (plural engs)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Ŋ/ŋ, formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Sami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages.

   Synonyms: agma, engma

• Neg, -gen, neg, GEN, /neg, gen, gen., neg., NGE, /gen, Gen, NEG, Gen.

From Proto-Albanian *anga, related to Lithuanian angùs (“sluggish, lazy, idle”), éngti (“to strangle”), Latvian îgt (“to wear off, to languish”), and Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌿𐍃 (aggwus, “narrow”).^[1]

eng (feminine enge)

1. deaf and dumb

• shtemët

• ang

From Old Norse eng.

• IPA^(key): /ɛnɡ/, [ɛŋˀ]

eng c (singular definite engen, plural indefinite enge)

1. A meadow.

• “eng” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “eng” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

• IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/

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• Hyphenation: eng
• Rhymes: -ɛŋ
• Homophone: Eng

From Middle Dutch enge, from Old Dutch *engi, from Proto-West Germanic *angī, from Proto-Germanic *anguz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰus. Cognate with German eng, from Old High German engi.

eng (comparative enger, superlative engst)

1. scary, creepy
2. narrow
3. small

Declension of eng
uninflected	eng
inflected	enge
comparative	enger
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		eng	enger	het engst het engste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	enge	engere	engste
	n. sing.	eng	enger	engste
	plural	enge	engere	engste
definite		enge	engere	engste
partitive		engs	engers	—

• Afrikaans: eng
• →? English: eng

From Middle Dutch enc.

eng m (plural engen)

1. alternative form of enk

• gen

• enge (archaic, as a byform until earlier 20th c.)

From Middle High German enge, from Old High German engi, from Proto-West Germanic *angī.

• IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/

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eng (strong nominative masculine singular enger, comparative enger, superlative am engsten)

1. narrow, tight

   enge Hosen ― tight trousers

2. (of relationships) close

   enge Freunde ― close friends

• “eng” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “eng” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “eng” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔəŋ/ [ˈʔɨŋ]
• Rhymes: -əŋ
• Syllabification: eng

ëng (plural ëëng)

1. nose
2. (Bauko, Kapangan) human nose

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1982) “Kankanay Anatomy: A Lexicon”, in Asian Folklore Studies‎^[2], volume 41, number 1 (overall work in English and Kankanaey), Nanzan University, →DOI, page 84

From Proto-Oceanic *aŋin, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *haŋin. Compare Tagalog hangin, Malagasy anina, Pohnpeian ahng, Fijian cagi, Tongan angi, Samoan agi, Hawaiian ani.

• IPA^(key): /eŋ/

eng

1. wind

• IPA^(key): /æŋ/

eng f

1. Feminine singular indefinite article: a, an

   Si huet zwéin Hënn an eng Kaz.

   She has two dogs and a cat.

2. Plural indefinite article: some; only used in wéi eng (“what kind of”), sou eng (“such, this kind of”), and to indicate a vague number before numerals and certain adjectives like ettlech

   Si huet eng fofzéng Kazen.

   She has some fifteen cats.

eng

1. nonstandard spelling of ēng
2. nonstandard spelling of éng
3. nonstandard spelling of ěng
4. nonstandard spelling of èng

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Proto-Oceanic *aŋin (“wind”), from Proto-Austronesian *haŋin (“wind”)

eng

1. wind

• ukeng

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

From Old Norse eng.

eng f or m (definite singular enga or engen, indefinite plural enger, definite plural engene)

1. a meadow

• blomstereng
• kløvereng
• slåtteeng

• “eng” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse eng, from Proto-Germanic *angijō.

• IPA^(key): /ɛŋː/

eng f (definite singular enga, indefinite plural enger, definite plural engene)

1. a meadow

• “eng” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːŋ/, [ˈɛːŋ]

ēng

1. alternative form of ēnich

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

• engi

From Proto-Germanic *angijō f.

eng f or n

1. meadow

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “eng1”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “eng2”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

eng c

1. archaic spelling of äng (“meadow”)

• eng. (“English”)

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰭 (ŋ /⁠eŋ⁠/), Kazakh ең (eñ), Azerbaijani ən, Kyrgyz эң (eŋ), Turkish en, and Turkmen iň.

• IPA^(key): /eŋ/

eng

1. the most ..., the ...-est (marks the superlative degree of adjectives)

   eng so'nggi yangiliklar

   the latest news

• (Northern Vietnam, South Vietnam) anh

From Proto-Vietic *ʔɛːŋ.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɛŋ˧˧]

eng

1. (North Central Vietnam) elder brother

   Antonyms: tam, ún

   eng ả tam ― brothers and sisters

• IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/

eng f (plural engiau)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Ng/ng.

• (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i / i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u / u bedol / u gwpan, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd