From Middle High German enk, enik, the accusative and dative second person dual pronoun. Cognate with Old English inc (dative second person dual pronoun).
enk
| nominative | accusative | dative | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | ||
| 1st person singular | i | — | mi | — | mia (mir) | ma | |
| 2nd person singular (informal) |
du | — | di | — | dia (dir) | da | |
| 2nd person singular (formal) |
Sie | — | Eahna | — | Eahna | — | |
| 3rd person singular | m | er | a | eahm | 'n | eahm | 'n |
| n | es, des | 's | des | 's | |||
| f | se, de | 's | se | 's | ihr | — | |
| 1st person plural | mia (mir) | ma | uns | — | uns | — | |
| 2nd person plural | eß, ihr | — | enk, eich | — | enk, eich | — | |
| 3rd person plural | se | 's | eahna | — | eahna | — | |
enk
From Middle Dutch enc, ultimately from or related to Proto-Germanic *angraz (“meadow, lowland”).
enk m (plural enken)
From Middle High German enge, from Old High German engi. Cognate with German eng, Dutch eng. The expected form would be eng (because of the final -e in Middle High German). The -k developed first in the uninflected stem by analogy with adjectives such as jonk, and was later generalised to all forms.
enk (masculine enken, neuter enkt, comparative méi enk, superlative am enksten)
| number and gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | hien ass enk | si ass enk | et ass enk | si si(nn) enk | |
| nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | enken | enk | enkt | enk |
| independent without determiner | enkes | enker | |||
| dative | after any declined word | enken | enker | enken | enken |
| as first declined word | enkem | enkem | |||