ellinge
/ˈɛlɪnd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "ELlinge: Solitary, lonely, melancholy, farre from neighbours: q. elongatus. Suß. a Gallico Eſloigner. Ellende in the Ancient Saxon ſignifies procul, farre off, farre from."
- "His barn stood in a very elenge lonesome place, a goodish bit from de house, and de Pharisees used to come dere a nights and thresh out some wheat and wuts for him, so dat de hep o' threshed corn was ginnerly bigger in de mornin dan when he left it overnight."
- "[…] but when the sea is so ellinge, and you can't see far into the muddy waves for the white drift of foam-then any one used to such a sight begins to think whose boat will come home, or who may be missing before another sun rises."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English elenge, elynge, from Old English ǣlenġe, from ǣ- (“without”) + lenġe (“related, belonging”). Compare similar fossilised formations with ǣ-: empty and oakum.