engi

engi

1. to cry

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• eng

From Old Norse eng.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeiɲcɪ/
• Rhymes: -eiɲcɪ

engi n (genitive singular engis, nominative plural engi)

1. meadow (field or pasture)

• eign

engi

1. Rōmaji transcription of えんぎ

The term is superficially similar to Maba(n) *anǯi, but Starostin notes that "the attested isogloss is between Mimi-D and Maba, as opposed to Mimi-D and Maban in general", so it might be a loan; similar terms are used for "rain" in a number of other nearby languages.

engi

1. water

• George Starostin, On Mimi

engi f

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of eng

From Proto-West Germanic *angī, whence also Old English enge, Old Norse ǫngr.

• enge

• IPA^(key): /ˈen.ɡi/

engi

1. narrow

• engī

• Middle High German: enge
  • Cimbrian: énghe
  • German: eng
  • Hunsrik: eng
  • Luxembourgish: enk
  • Rhine Franconian: eng (Frankfurt)
  • Yiddish: ענג (eng)

From the adjective engi: engi +‎ -ī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈen.ɡiː/

engī f

1. narrowness

• Middle High German: enge
  • Alemannic German: Engi
  • German: Enge

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

• einngi, eingi, øngvi
• enginn (younger)

From einn (“one”) +‎ -gi (“not”), literally “not one”. Compare Old Norse ekki.

engi (neuter ekki)

1. none, no one, nothing

engi (neuter ekki)

1. no, not any
2. (after negative or comparative) any

   aldri fyrr fekk hann þvílíkan sigr í engri herferð

   he had never before had such a victory in any campaign

   þessir dvergar kunnu betr smíða af járni en engir aðrir

   these dwarves could smith from iron better than anyone else

Note the function after a negative or a comparative. This ties in with Old Norse use of double negatives.

apn=engi
asn=ekki

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

From Proto-West Germanic *angī, whence also Old High German engi, Old English enge, Old Norse ǫngr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.ɣi/, [ˈeŋ.ɡi]

engi

1. narrow

• Middle Low German: enge
  • German Low German: eng