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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/angil
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).
Noun
*angil m[1]
- angel
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *angil | *angilō, *angilōs |
Accusative | *angil | *angilā |
Genitive | *angilas | *angilō |
Dative | *angilē | *angilum |
Instrumental | *angilu | *angilum |
Descendants
- Old English: enġel, anġel, ænġel, enġyl
- Middle English: aungel, engel, angel, ængel, aungil, aungell, angell, angyl, angyll, angylle, awngel (contaminated by Anglo-Norman angle)
- English: angel
- Jamaican Creole: aynjel
- → Chinese: 安琪兒 (ānqí'ér)
- → Hawaiian: ʻānela
- → Lingala: anjelu, anzelu
- → Malagasy: anjely
- → Xhosa: ingelosi
- → Zulu: ingelosi
- Scots: angel, aungel
- English: angel
- Middle English: aungel, engel, angel, ængel, aungil, aungell, angell, angyl, angyll, angylle, awngel (contaminated by Anglo-Norman angle)
- Old Frisian: angel, engel
- Saterland Frisian: Engel
- West Frisian: ingel
- Old Saxon: engil
- Middle Low German: engel
- Low German:
- German Low German: Engel
- Plautdietsch: Enjel
- → Estonian: ingel
- German Low German: Engel
- Low German:
- Middle Low German: engel
- Old Dutch: *engil
- Middle Dutch: engel
- Dutch: engel
- Afrikaans: engel
- Limburgish: ingel
- Dutch: engel
- Middle Dutch: engel
- Old High German: engil, angil
- Middle High German: engel
- Alemannic German: Ängel, Ängu
- Swabian: Engele
- Bavarian: Engl
- Cimbrian: énghel
- German: Engel
- Luxembourgish: Engel
- Alemannic German: Ängel, Ängu
- Middle High German: engel
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *angil”