# engi
## Äiwoo
### Verb

engi
* to cry

### References

* Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Icelandic
### Alternative forms

* eng

### Etymology

From Old Norse eng.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈeiɲcɪ/
* Rhymes: -eiɲcɪ

### Noun

engi n (genitive singular engis, nominative plural engi)
* meadow (field or pasture)

#### Declension
### Anagrams

* eign

## Japanese
### Romanization

engi
* Rōmaji transcription of えんぎ

## Mimi of Decorse
### Etymology

The term is superficially similar to Maba(n) *anǯi, but Starostin notes that "the attested isogloss is between Mimi-D and Maba, as opposed to Mimi-D and Maban in general", so it might be a loan; similar terms are used for "rain" in a number of other nearby languages.

### Noun

engi
* water

### References

* George Starostin, On Mimi

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

engi f
* (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of eng

## Old High German
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *angī, whence also Old English enge, Old Norse ǫngr.

#### Alternative forms

* enge

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈen.ɡi/

#### Adjective

engi
* narrow

##### Derived terms

* engī

##### Descendants

* Middle High German: enge
** Cimbrian: énghe
** German: eng
** Hunsrik: eng
** Luxembourgish: enk
** Rhine Franconian: eng (Frankfurt)
** Yiddish: ענג (eng)

### Etymology 2

From the adjective engi: engi +‎ -ī.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈen.ɡiː/

#### Noun

engī f
* narrowness

##### Descendants

* Middle High German: enge
** Alemannic German: Engi
** German: Enge

### References

* Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

## Old Norse
### Alternative forms

* einngi, eingi, øngvi
* enginn — younger

### Etymology

From einn (“one”) +‎ -gi (“not”), literally “not one”. Compare Old Norse ekki.

### Pronoun

engi (neuter ekki)
* none, no one, nothing

### Determiner

engi (neuter ekki)
* no, not any
* (after negative or comparative) any
    aldri fyrr fekk hann þvílíkan sigr í engri herferðhe had never before had such a victory in any campaign
    þessir dvergar kunnu betr smíða af járni en engir aðrirthese dwarves could smith from iron better than anyone else

#### Usage notes

Note the function after a negative or a comparative. This ties in with Old Norse use of double negatives.

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: enginn
* Faroese: eingin m or f, einki n; ikki
* Middle Norwegian: eingin m, einki n; eikki
** Norwegian Nynorsk: ingen m, inga, ingi f, inkje n; ikkje
* Elfdalian: indjin
* Old Swedish: ængin
** Swedish: ingen
* Danish: ingen
** Norwegian Bokmål: ingen

### Further reading

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

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *angī, whence also Old High German engi, Old English enge, Old Norse ǫngr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛn.ɣi/, [ˈeŋ.ɡi]

### Adjective

engi
* narrow

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: enge
** German Low German: eng

## Woiwurrung
### Verb

engi
* sang

### References

* ↑ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/The_aborigines_of_Victoria_-_with_notes_relating_to_the_habits_of_the_natives_of_other_parts_of_Australia_and_Tasmania_%28IA_b24885228_0002%29.pdf

### See also

* engeng (“sing”)