Engelond

Middle English

Alternative forms

Engeland, Englelond, England
Engle lond, Englene lond (Early Middle English)
Ingelond, Inglond, Ingland (Late Middle English)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English Engla land (“land of the Angles”), with haplology becoming usual by the end of the Early Middle English period;^[1] thus by surface analysis, Engle (“the English”) +‎ lond (“land”).

The variant Englene lond represents replacement of the Old English genitive plural Engla (“of the English”) with more current Englene; see -ene.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛnɡəlɔ̝ːnd/
IPA^(key): /ˈɛnɡlə ˌlɑːnd/, /ˈɛnɡlənə ˌlɑːnd/ (Early Middle English)

Proper noun

Engelond

England (a medieval kingdom in Northern Europe)
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto:
  […] 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 […]
Britain (a large island of Northern Europe)
Synonym: Britayne
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Ffrankeleẏns Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 155, recto:
  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
- 1461, John Wrexworth, Guyan King-of-Arms, Grant of Arms to William Swayne of Somerset (Add. MS. 14295, fo. 5b):^[2]
  The w^ch blason I the foresayd Gwyon Kinge of Armes witnesse: not then borne of any other ꝑson whatsoever he bee w^thin the Realme of England (otherwyse called the Ile of Great Brittaigne)
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

Englisch

Descendants

English: England (see there for further descendants)
Middle Scots: Ingland
- Scots: Ingland, England
Yola: Engelhoan, Englone
→ Middle Dutch: Engelant, Ingelant
- > Dutch: Engeland (inherited)
  - → Lokono: Engelanta
→ Middle High German: Engellant, Engelant, Engenlant
- Central Franconian:
  - Hunsrik: England
  - Luxembourgish: England
- German: England
- Rhine Franconian:
  - Pennsylvania German: England
- Yiddish: ענגלאַנד (england)
→ Latin: Angliterra (calque) (see there for further descendants)
→ Middle Low German: Engelant
- Low German: England
→ Middle Welsh: Englont, Inglont

References

^ “Engelōnd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
^ Willoughby Aston Littledale, editor (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^[1], volume 77, London: J. Whitehead and Son, Ltd., →OCLC, page 192

[1] “Engelōnd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

[2] Willoughby Aston Littledale, editor (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^[1], volume 77, London: J. Whitehead and Son, Ltd., →OCLC, page 192

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