engel

From Dutch engel.

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engel (plural engele)

1. angel

From Old Norse engill (“angel”), borrowed from Old Saxon engil and/or Old English enġel, from Proto-West Germanic *angil, which is borrowed via Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛŋəl]

engel c (singular definite englen or engelen, plural indefinite engle)

1. angel

From Middle Dutch engel, from Old Dutch engil, from Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛŋəl/

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• Hyphenation: en‧gel
• Rhymes: -ɛŋəl

engel m (plural engelen, diminutive engeltje n)

1. angel

• Afrikaans: engel
• Negerhollands: engel
• → Papiamentu: engel

• gelen
• legen

From Old Dutch engil, from Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).

engel m

1. angel, servant of God
2. fallen angel

• ingel

• Dutch: engel
  • Afrikaans: engel
  • Negerhollands: engel
  • → Papiamentu: engel
• Limburgish: ingel

• “inghel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “engel (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

engel

1. alternative form of aungel

Inherited from Old High German engil.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈeŋɡəl/

engel m

1. angel

• Alemannic German: Ängel, Ängu

  Swabian: Engele

• Bavarian: Engl

  Cimbrian: énghel

• German: Engel
  • →? Yiddish: ענגעל (engel)
• Luxembourgish: Engel
• → Latvian: eņģelis

From Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos), via Old Norse engill.

engel m (definite singular engelen, indefinite plural engler, definite plural englene)

1. an angel

• skytsengel

• “engel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos), via Old Norse engill.

engel m (definite singular engelen, indefinite plural englar, definite plural englane)

1. an angel

• skytsengel

• “engel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• anġel, ænġel, enġyl, enċġel

From Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈen.jel/, [ˈen.d͡ʒel]

enġel m (nominative plural englas)

1. angel

   Slǣp þū swōte. Iċ hopiġe þæt þē mǣte be englum.

   Sleep well. I hope you dream about angels.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"

     Seo eahteoðe leahter is superbia gehaten þæt is on ænglisc modigynss gecweden. Seo is ord and ende ælcere synne. Seo geworhte englas to atelicum deoflum...

     The eighth sin is called Superbia that is called Pride, in English, which is the beginning and end of every sin; it made angels into horrible devils,...

   • c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham (tr.), Hexameron of St. Basil:

     On ðām forman dæġe ūre drihten ġesċeōp seofonfealde weorc, ðæt wǣron ealle englas, and ðǣs lēohtes anġin, and ðæt antimber ðe hē of ġesċeōp syððan ġesċeafta, ðā upplīċan heofenan and ðā nyðerlīċan eorðan, ealle wætersċypas, and ða widgillan sǣ, and ðæt uppliċe lyft, eall on anū dæġe.

     On the first day our Lord created seven works, which were: all of angels; the beginning of light; the substance from which he later made all the creatures; the high heavens; the low earth; all the bodies of water; the wide ocean; and the lofty sky, all in a single day.

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: aungel, angel, angele, angell, angyl, angyll, angylle, aungell, aungil, awngel (Late Middle English), ængel, engel, ongel (Early Middle English), ennꟑell (Ormulum) (influenced by Anglo-Norman angle)
  • English: angel (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: angel, aungel

From Ottoman Turkish انكل (engel). Possibly en +‎ gel or a borrowing from Persian انگل (angal).

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engel (definite accusative engeli, plural engeller)

1. obstacle

• engellemek
• engelli

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انكل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 166a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “engel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük