Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-GLISH, a. [ing'glish; Sax. Englisc, from Engles, Angles, a tribe of Germans who settled in Britain, and gave it the name of England. The name seems to be derived from eng, ing, a meadow or plain, a level country; Sax. ing; Ice. einge; Dan. eng; Goth. winga; all which seem to be the same word as the Sax. wang, wong, a plain, and to coincide with the G. enge, D. eng, W. ing, strait, narrow, L. ango, from the sense of pressing, depression, laying, which gives the sense of level. The English are the descendants of the Ingævones of Tacitus, De Mor. Germ. 2; this name being composed of ing, a plain, and G. wohnen, D. woonen, to dwell. The Ingævones were inhabitants of the level country.]

Belonging to England, or to its inhabitants.