# engel
## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch engel.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

engel (plural engele)
* angel

## Danish
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛŋəl]

### Noun

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

#### Inflection
## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛŋəl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: en‧gel
* Rhymes: -ɛŋəl

### Noun

engel m (plural engelen, diminutive engeltje n)
* angel

#### Derived terms

* aartsengel
* alsof er een engeltje op je tong piest
* beschermengel
* doodsengel
* engel des doods
* engelachtig
* engelbewaarder
* engelenbak
* engelengeduld
* engelenhaar
* engelenkoor
* engelenmis
* engelenzang
* engelin
* engelwortel
* worgengel

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: engel
* Negerhollands: engel
* → Papiamentu: engel

### Anagrams

* gelen
* legen

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Noun

engel m
* angel, servant of God
* fallen angel

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Alternative forms

* ingel

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Noun

engel
* Alternative form of aungel

## Middle High German
### Etymology

Inherited from Old High German engil.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈeŋɡəl/

### Noun

engel m
* angel

#### Descendants

* Alemannic German: Ängel, Ängu
    Swabian: Engele
* Bavarian: Engl
    Cimbrian: énghel
* German: Engel
** →? Yiddish: ענגעל (engel)
* Luxembourgish: Engel
* → Latvian: eņģelis

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

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

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* skytsengel

### References

* “engel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

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

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* skytsengel

### References

* “engel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* anġel, ænġel, enġyl, enċġel

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈen.jel/, [ˈen.d͡ʒel]

### Noun

enġel m (nominative plural englas)
* 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,...

#### Derived terms

* enġelcund
* enġellīċ
* hēahenġel

#### Descendants

* Middle English: aungel, engel, angel, ængel, aungil, aungell, angell, angyl, angyll, angylle, awngel, enngell (contaminated by Anglo-Norman angle)
** English: angel (see there for further descendants)
** Scots: angel, aungel

## Turkish
### Etymology

Possibly en +‎ gel.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

engel (definite accusative engeli, plural engeller)
* obstacle

#### Derived terms

* engellemek
* engelli