elenge

elenge (comparative more elenge, superlative most elenge)

1. Alternative form of ellinge

elenge

1. boy
2. girl
3. youth

Borrowed from Bangi elenge.

elenge

1. young

elenge

1. boy
2. girl
3. youth

• eling, elinge, elyng, elynge, helynge
• alange, alenge, a lenge (East Saxon or Southwest Midland); a-lange (Promptorium Parvulorum)

Inherited from Old English ǣlenġe, from ǣ- (“without”) +‎ lenġe (“related, belonging”); compare bilenge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛˌleːnd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈɛlind͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈa-/

elenge (plural and weak singular elenge, comparative elengere) (Southern, South Midland)

1. Miserable, sad; not happy.
   • c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus .xx᷒. ⁊ prım᷒ de Dobeſt”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 124, recto; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:

     Heuy chered I yede. and elenge in herte / I ne wıſte wher to ete. ne at what place

     I travelled grave-faced and with a gloomy heart; / I didn't know where or at what point to eat.

2. Lonely, desolate; in isolation.
3. (rare) Tedious, dull; causing boredom.
4. (rare) Strange, unusual; out of the ordinary.

• elengely
• elengenesse

• English: ellinge, elenge, ellenge (dialectal, obsolete)

• “elenge, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “elenge, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.