engel

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch engel.

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Noun

engel (plural engele)

1. angel

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse engill (“angel”), borrowed from Old Saxon engil and/or Old English enġel, from Proto-West Germanic *angil, which is borrowed via Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).

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Noun

engel c (singular definite englen or engelen, plural indefinite engle)

1. angel

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch engel, from Old Dutch engil, from Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛŋəl/

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• Hyphenation: en‧gel
• Rhymes: -ɛŋəl

Noun

engel m (plural engelen, diminutive engeltje n)

1. angel

Derived terms

• aartsengel
• alsof er een engeltje op je tong piest
• beschermengel
• doodsengel
• engel des doods
• engelachtig
• engelbewaarder
• engelenbak
• engelengeduld
• engelenhaar
• engelenkoor
• engelenmis
• engelenzang
• engelin
• engelwortel
• worgengel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: engel
• Negerhollands: engel
• → Papiamentu: engel

Anagrams

• gelen
• legen

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch engil, from Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).

Noun

engel m

1. angel, servant of God
2. fallen angel

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• ingel

Descendants

• Dutch: engel
  • Afrikaans: engel
  • Negerhollands: engel
  • → Papiamentu: engel
• Limburgish: ingel

Further reading

• “inghel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “engel (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

Middle English

Noun

engel

1. Alternative form of aungel

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German engil.

Noun

engel m

1. angel

Declension

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Ängel, Ängu

  Swabian: Engele

• Bavarian: Engl

  Cimbrian: énghel

• German: Engel
  • →? Yiddish: ענגעל (engel)
• Luxembourgish: Engel
• → Latvian: eņģelis

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

engel

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos), via Old Norse engill.

Noun

engel m (definite singular engelen, indefinite plural engler, definite plural englene)

1. an angel

Derived terms

• skytsengel

References

• “engel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

engel

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos), via Old Norse engill.

Noun

engel m (definite singular engelen, indefinite plural englar, definite plural englane)

1. an angel

Derived terms

• skytsengel

References

• “engel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• anġel, ænġel, enġyl, enċġel

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈen.jel/,

Noun

enġel m (nominative plural englas)

1. angel

   Slǣp þū swōte. Iċ hopiġe þæt þē mǣte be englum.

   Sleep well. I hope you dream about angels.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"

     Seo eahteoðe leahter is superbia gehaten þæt is on ænglisc modigynss gecweden. Seo is ord and ende ælcere synne. Seo geworhte englas to atelicum deoflum...

     The eighth sin is called Superbia that is called Pride, in English, which is the beginning and end of every sin; it made angels into horrible devils,...

Declension

Derived terms

• enġelcund
• enġellīċ
• hēahenġel

Descendants

• Middle English: aungel, engel, angel, ængel, aungil, aungell, angell, angyl, angyll, angylle, awngel, enngell (contaminated by Anglo-Norman angle)
  • English: angel (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: angel, aungel

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish انكل (engel).

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Noun

engel (definite accusative engeli, plural engeller)

1. obstacle

Declension

Synonyms

• mâni

Derived terms

• engellemek

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انكل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 166