English

English Channel

English Channel comes from English England ‘English’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Made of the words English + Channel

Proto-West Germanic *Angli ‘an Angle’

Old English Engle ‘the Angles’

Old English Englisċ ‘of the Angles’

Middle English Englisch ‘of England’

Akkadian Akkadian form ‘reed’

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Latin canna ‘reed’

Latin canālis ‘groove’

Old French chanel

Middle English chanel

Every English word from English England

name The arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the British Isles from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.