different between eng vs ens

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Probably from Dutch eng (“narrow”), also confer Old English enge (“narrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *ang?, 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.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• The Middle English Dictionary
• bosworthtoller.com

Etymology 2

Noun

eng (plural engs)

1. Roman alphabet ?: 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
• (?): engma

Anagrams

• -gen, GEN, Gen, Gen., gen, gen., neg, neg.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *anga, related to Lithuanian angùs (“sluggish, lazy, idle”), éngti (“to strangle”), Latvian îgt (“to wear off, to languish”), and Gothic ???????????????????????? (aggwus, “narrow”).

Adjective

eng m (feminine enge)

1. deaf and dumb

Synonyms

• shtemët

Related terms

• ang

References

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse eng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?/, [???]

Noun

eng c (singular definite engen, plural indefinite enge)

1. A meadow.

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “eng” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “eng” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/
• Hyphenation: eng
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch enge, from Old Dutch *engi, from Proto-West Germanic *ang?, from Proto-Germanic *anguz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?én??us. Cognate with German eng, from Old High German engi.

Adjective

eng (comparative enger, superlative engst)

1. narrow
2. small
3. scary, creepy

Inflection

Derived terms

• doodeng
• engte

Descendants

• Afrikaans: eng
• ?? English: eng

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch enc.

Noun

eng m (plural engen)

1. Alternative form of enk.

Anagrams

• gen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German enge, from Old High German engi, from Proto-West Germanic *ang?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Adjective

eng (comparative enger, superlative am engsten)

1. narrow, tight

Declension

Related terms

• Angst
• enganliegend
• engbefreundet
• Enge
• engen
• Engheit
• engherzig
• Engelaut
• Engpaß
• engsichtig

Further reading

• “eng” in Duden online

Kosraean

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *a?in, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ha?in. Compare Tagalog hangin, Malagasy anina, Pohnpeian ahng, Fijian cagi, Tongan angi, Samoan agi, Hawaiian ani.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?/

Noun

eng

1. wind

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ?/

Article

eng f

1. Feminine singular indefinite article; a, an

   Si huet zwéin Hënn an eng Kaz

   She has two dogs and a cat

Declension

Mandarin

Romanization

eng

1. Nonstandard spelling of ?ng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse eng

Noun

eng f or m (definite singular enga or engen, indefinite plural enger, definite plural engene)

1. a meadow

Derived terms

• blomstereng
• kløvereng
• slåtteeng

References

• “eng” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse eng, from Proto-Germanic *angij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

eng f (definite singular enga, indefinite plural enger, definite plural engene)

1. a meadow

Inflection

References

• “eng” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e??/, [????]

Determiner

?ng

1. Alternative form of ?nich

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• engi

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *angij? f.

Noun

eng f or n

1. meadow

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• eng1 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• eng2 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Uzbek

Etymology

From Old Turkic ????? (? /e?/). Cognate with Azerbaijani ?n, Kyrgyz ?? (eñ), Turkish en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Adverb

eng

1. the most ..., the ...-est (marks the superlative degree of adjectives)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Noun

eng f (plural engiau)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Ng.

Mutation

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i/i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u/u bedol, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd ^{(Category: cy:Latin letter names)}

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?nz/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin ?ns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.

Noun

ens (plural enses or entia)

1. (philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
2. (chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.
   • 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 245:

     Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses or entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease […]

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Noun

ens

1. plural of en

Anagrams

• ESN, NES, SEN, SNe, Sen, Sen., sen

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ns/

Pronoun

ens (proclitic, enclitic nos, contracted enclitic 'ns)

1. us (direct or indirect object)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin ?ns (“being”); compare Spanish ente.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /??ns/

Noun

ens m (plural ens)

1. organization, entity, institution

   ens públic

   public institution

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse eins, from Middle Low German eines.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?ns/, [e??ns]

Adjective

ens

1. identical
2. alike

Pronoun

ens

1. genitive of en

Latin

Etymology

Formed as a present participle of sum (“to be”) in Medieval Latin (and therefore unknown in the Classical period) by using the bare present participial ending -?ns of second and third conjugation verbs, as an analogy to the Ancient Greek present participle ?? (?n) which falsely appears to be the same bare suffix but etymologically corresponds to s?ns, both from *h?es- (“to be”). See also essentia for a similar formation.

The original present participle s?ns had taken on the meaning "guilty" in the Classical period, but the still productive combining form -s?ns present in the verbs absum (abs?ns (“absent”)) and praesum (praes?ns (“present”)) was ignored in creating this form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ens/, [??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ens/, [?ns]

Noun

?ns n (genitive entis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) being
   • 13th c., Boetius of Dacia

     Ens autem aeternum nullum sequitur in duratione; ergo mundus non est aeternus. - Nothing follows the Eternal Being (God) in duration; therefore, the world isn't eternal.

2. essence
3. existence

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Descendants

• Albanian: ent
• Italian: ente
• Portuguese: ente
• Spanish: ente

Participle

?ns (genitive entis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. being

Declension

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Derived terms

• entit?s (Mediaeval Latin)

References

• ens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French ens.

Preposition

ens

1. in; inside

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German uns, from Old High German uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n?smé. Cognate with German uns, English us; also Ancient Greek ????? (h?meîs), Sanskrit ??????? (asm?n), Old Irish ar.

Pronoun

ens

1. accusative of biar: us

References

• “ens” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Old French

Alternative forms

• enz

Etymology

From Latin intus.

Preposition

ens

1. in; inside

Synonyms

• dedens

Descendants

• Middle French: ens

Swedish

Adverb

ens

1. even (negatively comparatively as in not even..., did you even [bother to]...)

   Var du ens född då?

   Were you even born then?

Derived terms

• inte ens (“not even...”)

Noun

ens

1. indefinite genitive singular of en
2. alignment (cf. ensa, enslinje)

Derived terms

• med ens (“at once”)
• enslinje (“transit”)
• ensa

Pronoun

ens

1. genitive of the indefinite pronoun "man"; one's

Declension

Anagrams

• sen, sne