Etymograph

English

ellinge

Ellinge comes from Middle English elenge ‘Miserable, sad’, from Old English ǣlenġe ‘strong accusative feminine singular’, and ultimately from lenġe ‘related, belonging’.

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150lenġe‘related, belonging’
  2. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150ǣlenġe‘strong accusative feminine singular’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500elenge‘Miserable, sad’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1854ellinge

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150lenġe‘related, belonging’
  2. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150ǣlenġe‘strong accusative feminine singular’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500elenge‘Miserable, sad’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1854ellinge

Earliest quotation: 1854, Mark Antony Lower, The South Downs—A Sketch: “His barn stood in a very elenge lonesome place,…”

Every English word from Old English lenġe

Today it means

adj Isolated, lonely, dreary, unsettling.

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

Etymograph / Old English lenġe / ellinge

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