Nearby Words

Anglian

[ang-glee-uhn] Origin

An·gli·an

[ang-glee-uhn]
adjective
1.
Also, Anglic. of or relating to the Angles or to East Anglia.
noun
2.
an Angle.
3.
the northern and central group of Old English dialects, spoken in Northumbria and Mercia.

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Anglian is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1720–30; Angli(a) + -an
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To Anglian
Collins
World English Dictionary
Anglian (ˈæŋɡlɪən)
 
adj
1.  of or relating to the Angles or to the Anglian dialects of Old English
 
n
2.  Kentish See also West Saxon the group of Old and Middle English dialects spoken in the Midlands and the north of England, divided into Mercian and Northumbrian

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Etymonline
Word Origin & History

Anglian
"of the Angles," 1726; see Angle. The O.E. word was Englisc, but as this came to be used in ref. to the whole Gmc. people of Britain, a new word was wanted to describe this one branch of them.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature