eng

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eng"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English English.

Symbol

eng

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of English terms

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• 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.

   The hole was too eng for him to get through.

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

eng (plural engs)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Ŋ/ŋ, formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Sami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages.

   Synonyms: agma, engma

Derived terms

• feng
• heng

Translations

Translations

Russian: энг m (eng)

Anagrams

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