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An⋅gli⋅an

  [ang-glee-uhn]
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–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.
Origin:
1720–30; Angli(a) + -an
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An·gli·an   (āng'glē-ən)   
adj.  Of or relating to East Anglia or to the Angles.
n.  

  1. An Angle.

  2. The Old English dialects of Mercia and Northumbria.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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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, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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