English

Meaning

1. To translate, adapt or render into English.
2. An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance.
3. A particular instance of the English language, including:
4. An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Kentucky.
5. English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
6. The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community.
7. Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in pool, billiards or bowling; spin, sidespin.
8. The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication.
9. English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
10. Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
11. Alternative form of English.
12. The people of England, e.g., Englishmen and Englishwomen.
13. An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
14. Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).
15. Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors on a camera.
16. Of or pertaining to England.
17. Synonym of language arts, the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes.
18. The English term or expression for some thing or idea.
19. To make English; to claim for England.
20. A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
21. A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English.
22. A number of places in the United States:
23. Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.
24. A town, the county seat of Crawford County, Indiana; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English.
25. Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
26. The language that developed in England and is now spoken in the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and many other parts of the world.
27. A male or female given name.

Etymology / origin

From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe + -isċ; equivalent to Engle + -ish. Doublet of Anglish. Compare West Frisian Ingelsk, Scots Inglis (older ynglis), Dutch Engels, Danish engelsk, Old French Englesche (whence French anglais), German englisch, Spanish inglés, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow”) (compare Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu, “narrow”), अंहस् (áṃhas, “anxiety, sin”), Latin angustus (“narrow”), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “narrow”)). More at Angles (tribe) § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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