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Eastengle
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Old English
Etymology
ang ēast Engle
Pronunciation
Ēast-engle
Proper noun
Ēastengle m-p
the East Angles
late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
ang And of Engle cōman Ēastengle ⁊ Middelengle ⁊ Myrċe ⁊ eall Norðhembra cynn... And from Anglia came the East Angles and the Middle Angles and the Mercians and all the Northumbrians...
East Anglia
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript A, year 838
ang Herebeorht wæs ofslæġen fram hǣðnum mannum and maniġe mid him on Miersċwarum and þȳ ilcan ġēare eft on Lindesiġe and on Ēastenglum and on Cantwarum wurdon maniġe menn ofslæġene fram þām herġe. Herebryht and many others were killed by pagans in Mercia, and the same year many more people in Lindsey and East Anglia and Kent were killed by the pagan army.
Declension
strong i-stem Ēastengle Ēastengle Ēastengla Ēastenglum
ang i-stem nouns
ang Demonyms Places in England