eng

English Online Dictionary. What means eng‎? What does eng mean?

Translingual

Symbol

eng

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

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋ

Etymology 1

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”).

Adjective

eng

1. (regional, obsolete) Narrow.

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

eng (plural engs)

1. Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink. .

Synonyms

• agma
• (ŋ): engma

Derived terms

(ŋ):

• feng
• heng

Anagrams

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

Albanian

Etymology

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”).

Adjective

eng (feminine enge)

1. deaf and dumb

Synonyms

• shtemët

Related terms

• ang

References

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse eng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnɡ/, [ɛŋˀ]

Noun

eng c (singular definite engen, plural indefinite enge)

1. A meadow.

Inflection

Derived terms

References

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/
• Hyphenation: eng
• Rhymes: -ɛŋ
• Homophone: Eng

Etymology 1

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.

Adjective

eng (comparative enger, superlative engst)

1. scary, creepy
2. narrow
3. small

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: eng
• →? English: eng

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch enc.

Noun

eng m (plural engen)

1. Alternative form of enk

Anagrams

• gen

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/

Adjective

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

1. narrow, tight

   enge Freunde. ― close friends.

Declension

Related terms

• Angst
• enganliegend
• engbefreundet
• Enge
• engen
• Engheit
• engherzig
• Engelaut
• Engpass
• engsichtig

Further reading

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

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ëng (plural ëëng)

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

Synonyms

References

• 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

Kosraean

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eŋ/

Noun

eng

1. wind

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æŋ/

Article

eng f

1. Feminine singular indefinite article: a, an

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

Declension

Mandarin

Romanization

eng

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

Usage notes

• 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.

Mokilese

Etymology

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

Noun

eng

1. wind

Derived terms

• ukeng

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse eng.

Noun

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

1. a meadow

Derived terms

• blomstereng
• kløvereng
• slåtteeng

References

• “eng” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛŋː/

Noun

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

1. a meadow

Inflection

References

• “eng” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːŋ/, [ˈɛːŋ]

Determiner

ēng

1. Alternative form of ēnich

References

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

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• engi

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *angijō f.

Noun

eng f or n

1. meadow

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• “eng1”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eng2”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Noun

eng c

1. Archaic spelling of äng (“meadow”).

See also

• eng. (“English”)

Uzbek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eŋ/

Adverb

eng

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/

Noun

eng f (plural engiau)

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

Mutation

See also

• (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