Where did england get its name from?

Question

What does "eng" mean ?

Answer 1

England became a unified state in the year 927 and takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled there during the 5th and 6th centuries.

In fact it was Englaland. Later England.

The ethnic name "Angle" has had various forms and spellings, the earliest attested being Anglii, the Latinized name of a Germanic tribe mentioned in the Germania of Tacitus. It is adjectival in form. An individual of this tribe would have been called Anglius if male and Anglia if female, (the plural forms being Anglii and Angliae, respectively). The masculine is used for the generic form.

The original noun from which this adjective was produced has not been determined with confidence. The stem is theorized to have had the form *Ang?l/r-. The more prominent etymological theories concerning the name's origin have included:

    * Derivation from the Latin word angulus, translating as "Angle"

    * The Old English word for the Baltic district of Angeln (where the Angles are believed to have emigrated from) is Angel. This is the preferred etymological theory amongst historians, and may connect to Angle, (the peninsula is marked for its "angular" shape).

    * It may mean "the people who dwell by the Narrow Water," (i.e. the Schlei), from the Proto-Indo-European language root ang- meaning "narrow".

    * It may refer to fishing by the method called "angling."

    * Derivation from the Germanic god Ingwaz or the Ingvaeones federation of which the Angles were part, (the initial vowel could as well be "a" or "e").

Pope Gregory the Great is the first known to have simplified Anglii to Angli, which he did in an epistle, the latter form developing into the preferred form of the word in Britain and throughout the continent, (the generic form becoming Anglus in answer). The country remained Anglia in Latin. Meanwhile, there are several likenesses of form and meaning attested in Old English literature: King Alfred's (Alfred the Great) translation of Orosius uses Angelcynn (-kin) to describe England and the English people; Bede, Angelfolc (-folk); there are also such forms as Engel, Englan (the people), Englaland and Englisc, all showing signs of vocalic mutation and later developing into the dominant forms.

Angle is used as the root of the French and Anglo-Norman words Angleterre (Angleland, i.e. England) and Anglais (English).

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Answer 2

Angles as in Anglo Saxon

Answer 3

Marks and Spencer ,

Answer 4

It meant Good or Fertile. Thus Engeland= Good land

Answer 5

England became a unified state in the year 927 and takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled there during the 5th and 6th centuries.

Answer 6

"Land of the Angles"

The Angles were one of three tribes that existed prior to the Norman Conquest

Answer 7

It comes from Angles

Answer 8

It was originally 'Angles-land' after the Anglo Saxons.

I'm not sure who called it that.

Answer 9

The name 'England' comes from the Angles who were among the first who 'invaded' the British Isles after the last ice age receded ... the Angles were mostly Germanic people who traveled west.  The Saxons were French people who also traveled west and 'invaded' the British Isles ... but the Celtic people (Gaelic, all three of Scot, Welsh, and Irish) got there first.