eng

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/

Probably from Dutch eng (“narrow”), also confer Old English enge (“narrow”), 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”).

eng

1. (regional, obsolete) Narrow.

   The hole was too eng for him to get through.

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

• agma
• (ŋ): engma

• -gen, Gen, Gen., gen, gen., neg, neg.

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”)[1].

eng m (feminine enge)

1. deaf and dumb

• ang

From Old Norse eng.

• IPA^(key): /ɛnɡ/, [ɛŋˀ]

eng c (singular definite engen, plural indefinite enge)

1. A meadow.

From Old Dutch *engi, from Proto-Germanic *anguz. Cognate with German eng, from Old High German engi.

• Rhymes: -ɛŋ

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• IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/

eng (comparative enger, superlative engst)

1. narrow
2. small
3. scary, creepy

• gen

From Old High German engi, from Proto-Germanic *anguz.

• IPA^(key): /ɛŋ/

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eng (comparative enger, superlative am engsten)

1. narrow, tight

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

• eng in Duden online

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

• IPA^(key): /eŋ/

eng

1. wind

• IPA^(key): /æŋ/

eng f

1. Feminine singular indefinite article; a, an

   Si huet zwéin Hënn an eng Kaz

   She has two dogs and a cat

eng

1. Nonstandard spelling of ēng.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Old Norse eng

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

1. a meadow

• blomstereng
• kløvereng
• slåtteeng

• “eng” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse eng.

• IPA^(key): /ɛŋː/

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

1. a meadow

• “eng” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• engi

From Proto-Germanic *angijō f.

eng f or n

1. meadow

• 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