Engle

See also: engle

English

Proper noun

Engle

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Sierra County, New Mexico.
   2. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas.
   3. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
3. (historical) Synonym of Angle (“member of the tribe of Angles”).
   • 1907, Joseph Pomeroy Widney, The Old World, page 255:

     The Engle or English man absorbed the Saxon, absorbed the Jute, but himself remained English.

Anagrams

• Engel, glene, gleen

German

Proper noun

Engle m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Engles or (with an article) Engle, feminine genitive Engle, plural Engles or Engle)

1. a surname

Middle English

Etymology

Inherited from Old English Engle (“the English people”), from Proto-West Germanic *Angli; compare angel (“angle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛnɡlə/

Proper noun

Engle pl (genitive plural Englene)

1. (Early Middle English) The English (ethnicity or nationality).

Related terms

• Engelond
• Englisch

Old English

Alternative forms

• Ængle, Angle, Ongle

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *Angli. The name is possibly derived from angol (“fishhook”), from Proto-West Germanic *angul, from Proto-Germanic *angulaz, referring to either the Angles' habitat on the Jutland coast, shaped like a fishhook, or the Angles' probable occupation as fishermen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈen.ɡle/, [ˈeŋ.ɡle]
• Rhymes: -en.ɡle

Proper noun

Engle m pl

1. the English
2. England
3. the Angles

Declension

Strong i-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	—	Engle
accusative	—	Engle
genitive	—	Engla
dative	—	Englum

Synonyms

• Angelseaxan (rare)

Derived terms

• Ēastengle
• Engla land
• Englisċ
• Middelengle

Descendants

• Middle English: Engle

See also

• Angel-
• Seaxan