engil

Old High German

Alternative forms

• angil

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *angil.

Noun

engil m

1. angel
   • c. 830 CE, Rabanus Maurus et al., Diatessaron 3.6:

     Quad thō Maria zi themo engile […]

     Then Marie said to the angel […]

Descendants

• Middle High German: engel
  • Alemannic German: Ängel, Ängu

    Swabian: Engele

  • Bavarian: Engl

    Cimbrian: énghel

  • German: Engel
    • →? Yiddish: ענגעל (engel)
  • Luxembourgish: Engel
  • → Latvian: eņģelis

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *angil.

Noun

engil m

1. (religion) angel

Declension

engil (masculine a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	engil	englos
accusative	engil	englos
genitive	engles	englō
dative	engle	englum
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: engel
  • Low German:
    • German Low German: Engel
      • Plautdietsch: Enjel
    • → Estonian: ingel
• → Old Norse: engill
  • Icelandic: engill
  • Faroese: eingil
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: engel
    • Norwegian Bokmål: engel
  • Elfdalian: aindjel
  • Danish: engel
  • Old Swedish: ængil, engil
    • Swedish: ängel
    • → Finnish: enkeli
  • Gutnish: änggel