Engelond
Middle English
Alternative forms
- Engeland, Englelond, England
- Engle lond, Englene lond (Early Middle English)
- Ingelond, Inglond, Ingland (Late Middle English)
Etymology
From Old English Engla land (“land of the Angles”) by haplology.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛnɡəlɔːnd/
Proper noun
Engelond
- England
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 15-16.
- And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,- And specially from every shire's end
Of England they to Canterbury went,
- And specially from every shire's end
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 15-16.
- Britain
- 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) :[1]
- The wch blason I the foresayd Gwyon Kinge of Armes witnesse: not then borne of any other ꝑson whatsoever he bee wthin the Realme of England (otherwyse called the Ile of Great Brittaigne)
- Synonym: Britayne
Related terms
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, volume 77, London: J. Whitehead and Son, Ltd., →OCLC, page 192
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