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Ende
Ende
English
Proper noun
Ende
- A language spoken in Indonesia.
See also
- Wiktionary's coverage of Ende terms
German
Etymology
From Old High German enti, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos. Cognate with German Low German Enn, Dutch einde, English end, Danish ende, Swedish ände.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛndə/
- Rhymes: -ɛndə
Noun
Ende n (genitive Endes, plural Enden)
- end, finish
- conclusion
- 1912, Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung, in: Die Weißen Blätter. Eine Monatsschrift. year 2, issue 10, Verlag der Weißen Bücher (1915), page 1180:
- Zunächst wollte er ruhig und ungestört aufstehen, sich anziehen und vor allem frühstücken, und dann erst das Weitere überlegen, denn, das merkte er wohl, im Bett würde er mit dem Nachdenken zu keinem vernünftigen Ende kommen.
- To begin with, he wanted to get up calmly and undisturbed, get dressed and, above all, have breakfast, and only then think about everything else, because, as he realized very well, in bed he would not come to a sensible conclusion with the thinking.
- Zunächst wollte er ruhig und ungestört aufstehen, sich anziehen und vor allem frühstücken, und dann erst das Weitere überlegen, denn, das merkte er wohl, im Bett würde er mit dem Nachdenken zu keinem vernünftigen Ende kommen.
- 1912, Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung, in: Die Weißen Blätter. Eine Monatsschrift. year 2, issue 10, Verlag der Weißen Bücher (1915), page 1180:
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ende
ende
Albanian
Etymology
Historically identical with edhe. Compare Danish end (“but”), Icelandic enn (“still, yet”).
Adverb
ende
Related terms
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse endi, endir (“end”), from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛnə/, [ˈɛnə], [ˈɛnn̩]
Noun
ende c (singular definite enden, plural indefinite ender)
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Old Norse enda (“to end”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛnə/, [ˈɛnə], [ˈɛnn̩]
Verb
ende (imperative end, infinitive at ende, present tense ender, past tense endte, perfect tense er/har endt)
Synonyms
Dutch
Alternative forms
- en (standard)
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle Dutch ende, from Old Dutch enda, anda, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entí. Compare Low German un, German und, West Frisian en, English and, Danish end.
Conjunction
ende
- (archaic) and
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛndə
Verb
ende
- First-person singular present of enden.
- First-person singular subjunctive I of enden.
- Third-person singular subjunctive I of enden.
- Imperative singular of enden.
Middle Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈendə/
Etymology 1
From Old Dutch *endi, enda, *ende, from Proto-Germanic *andi.
Alternative forms
Conjunction
ende
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Old Dutch *endi, ende, einde, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz.
Alternative forms
Noun
ende n
Descendants
Middle English
Alternative forms
- eende
Noun
ende
- end
- 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41
- And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge. And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him, and comownede ofte with him. And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… Maister Ion Aston taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende. Also Filip of Repintoun whilis he was a chanoun of Leycetre, Nycol Herforde, dane Geffrey of Pikeringe, monke of Biland and a maistir dyuynyte, and Ioon Purueye, and manye other whiche weren holden rightwise men and prudent, taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto. And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem, and speciali of Wiclef himsilf, as of the moost vertuous and goodlich wise man that I herde of owhere either knew. And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”
- 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41
Descendants
- English: end
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse endi, endir, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos.
Noun
ende m (definite singular enden, indefinite plural ender, definite plural endene) (genitive form endes)
- end (extreme part)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
ende (imperative end, present tense ender, simple past endte, past participle endt, present participle endende)
- to end
References
- “ende” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse endi, endir, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos.
Noun
ende m (definite singular enden, indefinite plural endar, definite plural endane) (genitive form endes)
- end (extreme part)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
ende (present tense endar, past tense enda, past participle enda, passive infinitive endast, present participle endande, imperative ende/end)
- Alternative form of enda
References
- “ende” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos. Cognate with Old Frisian ende, enda, Old Saxon endi, Old Dutch ende, einde (Dutch einde), Old High German enti (German Ende), Old Norse endir (Swedish ände), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃 (andeis).
Noun
ende m
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Spanish
Etymology
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Noun
ende