Engel
English edit
Proper noun edit
Engel (plural Engels)
- A surname.
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Proper noun edit
Engel m anim
- a male surname
Declension edit
This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German engel, from Old High German engil from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos). Cognate with English angel.
Noun edit
Engel m (strong, genitive Engels, plural Engel, diminutive Engelchen n or Englein n)
- angel
- Wisst ihr nicht, dass wir über die Engel richten werden?
- Do you not know that we will judge angels?
Declension edit
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- →? Yiddish: ענגעל (engel)
Etymology 2 edit
Short form of given names beginning with Engel-, such as Engelbert. Also a nickname for someone with an angelic disposition, or for someone living in a house with a sign of an angel.
Proper noun edit
Engel m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Engels or (with an article) Engel, feminine genitive Engel, plural Engels or Engel)
- a surname transferred from the given name
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | feminine | |||||||
indef. | def. | noun | indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | (ein) | (der) | Engel | (eine) | (die) | Engel | (die) | Engels, Engel |
genitive | (eines) | (des) | Engels, Engel1 | (einer) | (der) | Engel | (der) | Engels, Engel |
dative | (einem) | (dem) | Engel | (einer) | (der) | Engel | (den) | Engels, Engel |
accusative | (einen) | (den) | Engel | (eine) | (die) | Engel | (die) | Engels, Engel |
1With an article.
Further reading edit
- “Engel” in Duden online
- “Engel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Engel”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Luxembourgish edit
Noun edit
Engel m (plural Engelen)
Pennsylvania German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German engel, from Old High German engil, from Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).
Noun edit
Engel m (plural Engel)
- angel (celestial being, messenger)