Etymograph

English

englut

Englut comes from Old French englotir ‘to swallow up’, and goes back to Late Latin ingluttīre.

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEingluttīre
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400englotir‘to swallow up’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1590englut

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEingluttīre
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400englotir‘to swallow up’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1590englut

Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book II, Canto II: “Whose grieued mindes, which choler did englut, / Against…”

Formed from en- + glut

Middle English glotien//glotten

English glut

Every English word from Late Latin ingluttīre

Today it means

verb To swallow; to swallow up, engulf.

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

Etymograph / Late Latin ingluttīre / englut

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