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Engelond
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Middle English
Alternative forms
enm Engeland Englelond England
enm Engle lond Englene lond early
enm Ingelond Inglond Ingland late
Etymology
enm British region :inh ang:Engla land<id:British region>
enm ang Engla land land of the Angles, with haplology becoming usual by the end of the Early Middle English period;Engelōnd n MED13800 thus enm Engle the English lond land 1.
The variant enm Englene lond represents replacement of the Old English genitive plural ang Engla of the English with more current enm Englene; see enm -ene genitive plural.
Pronunciation
enm /ˈɛnɡəlɔ̝ːnd/
enm /ˈɛnɡlə ˌlɑːnd/ /ˈɛnɡlənə ˌlɑːnd/ early
Proper noun
enm medieval kingdom r/Northern Europe England
Hg Prologue 2 https://viewer.library.wales/4628556#?#&cv=14&xywh=1710%2C2786%2C737%2C547 and specıallẏ from euerẏ shire' ende / Of Engelond to Caunterburẏ theẏ wende / The holẏ blıſful martır foꝛ to seke / That hem hath holpen whan þᵗ theẏ weere seeke and specially from every county's end / of England to Canterbury they went / to seek the holy blessed martyr / that had helped them when they were sick
XII 148 Sȏme men haue ſaıd that ıt war good foꝛ the kyng that the cȏmons of englond wer made poer as be the cȏmons of fruͣnce Some people have said that it would be good for the King if the commoners of England were made [as] poor as the commoners of France are.
enm large island r/Northern Europe Britain
enm Britayne
Hg Franklin's Tale 155 https://viewer.library.wales/4628556#?#&cv=320&xywh=406%2C1151%2C1928%2C1618 A yeer and moore laſted this bliſful lyf, / Til that the knyght of which I ſpeke of thus, / That of Kayrrud was cleped Arveragus, / Shoop hym to goon and dwelle a yeer or twayne / In Engelond, that cleped was ek Britayne A year and more lasted this blissful life, / Until the knight of whom I thus speak, / That was called Arveragus of Kayrrud, / Prepared himself to go and dwell a year or two / In England, which was also called Britain
enm John Wrexworth, Guyan King-of-Arms Grant of Arms to William Swayne of Somerset 1461 Add. MS. 14295, fo. 5b The wch blason I the foresayd Gwyon Kinge of Armes witnesse: not then borne of any other ꝑson whatsoever he bee wthin the Realme of England (otherwyse called the Ile of Great Brittaigne) 1926 A Collection of Miscellaneous Grants, Crests, Confirmations, Augmentations and Exemplifications of Arms in the Mss. Preserved in the British Museum, Ashmolean Library, Queen's College, Oxford, and Elsewhere 77 https://books.google.com/books?id=GOQRAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA192&ots=tXCuhw8_mv&pg=PA192 192 3986596 Willoughby Aston Littledale J. Whitehead and Son, Ltd. London
Related terms
enm Englisch
Descendants
en England
gmw-msc Ingland
sco Ingland 1
yol Engelhoan 1
dum 1 Engelant
gmh 1 Engellant
la 1 Angliterra
gml 1 Engelant
nds England
wlm 1 Englont Inglont
See also
enm Gret Britaine, enm Grete Britayne, enm Grete Britaigne
enm Wales
enm Scotlond
enm Cornwayle
References