eng

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eng"

Translingual

Symbol

eng

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

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 in analogy with other names for nasal consonants em (m) and en (n).

Noun

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. .

Synonyms

• agma
• (ŋ): engma

Derived terms

(ŋ):

• feng
• heng

Anagrams

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