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What is the Old English word for enough? ›

The word "enough" has an interesting etymology. It comes from the Old English word "genōh," which means "sufficient" or "satisfactory." The Old English term "genōh" itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*ganôh," which has similar meanings of sufficiency or satisfaction.

Go descends from Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *ǵʰēh₁- 'to go, leave'. Cognates in the Germanic languages include West Frisian gean, Dutch gaan, Low German gahn, German gehen, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish gå, Crimean Gothic geen.

From Middle English no, na, from Old English nā, nō (“no, not, not ever, never”), from Proto-Germanic *nai (“never”), *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne, *nē, *nēy (negative particle), equivalent to Old English ne (“not”) + ā, ever, always.

The earliest known use of the noun take is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for take is from 1392. It is also recorded as a verb from the Old English period (pre-1150).

abundant, adequate, ample, full, sufficient, suitable.

“The oldest known dictionaries were Akkadian Empire cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian –Akkadian wordlists, discovered in Ebla (modern Syria ) and dated roughly 2300 BCE .

The past of Old Engl. gan “go” was eode, a word derived from a different root. In Middle English, went, the historical preterit of wend (as in wend one's way), superseded eode. The language had a chance of producing a regular past of gan but chose to replace suppletion with suppletion.

3 forms: go-went-gone.

Men is the plural of man.

What is Nan in British slang? ›

1. countable noun. Some people refer to their grandmother as their nan. [British, informal] I was brought up by my nan.

It means "not one" or "not any" or "none."

A pronoun is a word that stands in for a noun, often to avoid the need to repeat the same noun over and over. Like nouns, pronouns can refer to people, things, concepts, and places.

Nouns are commonly defined as people, places, or things. They address the "who" or "what" of a sentence. The most reliable sign that a given word is a noun is if it follows an article like "the" or "a." Examples: The world is round.

There are four different types of nouns, they are – common nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, and collective nouns. Common Nouns – A common noun is a word or a name used for naming a person, a place, an object, or any living thing like a tree or an animal.

From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“many”).

The etymology of but, stems from the old English word butan, which dates back to before the 12th century. In Middle English, the word had three three labels: buten, boute and bouten (make sure you do not use these). Soon after, it turned into but.

From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁- (“to fill; full”).