English
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
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Etymology: From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe + -isċ; equivalent to Engle + -ish. Doublet of Anglish. Compare West Frisian Ingelsk, Scots Inglis (older ynglis), Dutch Engels, Danish engelsk, Old French Englesche (whence French anglais), German englisch, Spanish inglés, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow”) (compare Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu, “narrow”), अंहस् (áṃhas, “anxiety, sin”), Latin angustus (“narrow”), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “narrow”)). More at Angles (tribe) § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Affixes: -isċ
Inflected forms:
form: more English
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most English
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Inglish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
rare
form: Englishe
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: english
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
form: english
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
rare
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to England.
pos: adj
examples: During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible. The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired.
gloss: English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
pos: adj
examples: Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.
Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).
pos: adj
examples: The Uſuwrper [...] within a few miles Tanna's Fort, near the Engliſh ſettlement of Fort William.
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
pos: adj
examples: an English ton
gloss: Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
pos: adj
gloss: Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors on a camera.
pos: adj
Derived words: English Bazar
English Bicknor
English bluebell
English Foxhound
English foxhound
English Gypsy
English ivy
English River
English round hand
English Springer Spaniel
English sweat
English toy spaniel
full English
full English breakfast
Old English sheepdog
un-English
white English bulldog
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: inglés
lang: Bulgarian
word: англи́йски
roman: anglíjski
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 英国人的
roman: yīngguórén de
lang: Esperanto
word: angla
lang: Esperanto
word: virangla
lang: Esperanto
word: anglina
lang: Finnish
word: englantilainen
lang: Hungarian
word: angol
lang: Icelandic
word: enskur
lang: Irish
word: Sasanach
lang: Korean
word: 영국인(英國人)의
roman: yeonggugin-ui
lang: Korean
word: 영국(英國) 사람의
roman: yeongguk saram-ui
lang: Latvian
word: angļu
lang: Latvian
word: anglisks
lang: Lithuanian
word: angliškas
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: engelsk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: engelsk
lang: Romanian
word: englez
lang: Russian
word: англи́йский
roman: anglíjskij
lang: Tamil
word: ஆங்கிலேய
roman: āṅkilēya
lang: Unami
word: Inklìshi
lang: Volapük
word: Linglänanik
lang: Volapük
word: hi-Linglänanik
lang: Volapük
word: ji-Linglänanik