genge

Inherited from Old English genge (“band”), from Proto-Germanic *gangiją, possibly through Old Norse gengi.

• geng, ging, gyng, gynge

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛnɡ(ə)/, /ˈɡeːnɡ(ə)/, /ˈɡinɡ(ə)/

genge (poetic)

1. A group or crowd of people.
   1. A host or band (of armed men)
   2. A retinue; one's attendants.
2. (biblical) The pagan nations; the Gentiles.

• English: ging (obsolete)
• Middle Scots: ging

• “ging(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English genġe (“current”), from Proto-West Germanic *gangī, from Proto-Germanic *gangiz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛnd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈɡeːnd͡ʒ(ə)/

genge

1. (Early Middle English, poetic, rare) prevailing, thriving

• “genǧe, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Probably borrowed from Old Norse gengi (“help”), from Proto-Germanic *gangiją. Cognate with Old English genġe (“gang, flock, company”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡen.ɡe/, [ˈɡeŋ.ɡe]

genge n

1. A host or band (of armed men)

Strong ja-stem:

• Middle English: genge, geng, ging, gyng, gynge
  • English: ging (obsolete)
  • Middle Scots: ging

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “genge”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *gangijā, from *gangan (“to go; to defecate”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡen.je/, [ˈɡen.d͡ʒe]

genġe f

1. A passage; drain; toilet.
2. An outhouse; a building used as a lavatory.

Weak feminine (n-stem):

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “genge”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *gangī, from Proto-Germanic *gangiz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡen.je/, [ˈɡen.d͡ʒe]

genġe

1. current, going, valid

• Middle English: genge (early)

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “genge”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

genge class V (plural magenge class VI)

1. cliff, chasm
2. kiosk, stall
3. gang, clique