An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Engel

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, E (1891)
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis
Engel
Friedrich Kluge2506800An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, E — Engel1891John Francis Davis

Engel, m., from the equiv. MidHG. ęngel, OHG. ęngil, angil, m., ‘angel’; corresponding to OSax. ęngil, Du. engel, AS. ęngel (but E. angel is borrowed from the OFr. angele), OIc. engell, Goth. aggilus, m., ‘angel.’ The cognates which are diffused throughout Teut. are borrowed from the ecclesiastical Lat. angelus, or more probably from Gr. ἄγγελος, ‘angel.’ How they were borrowed cannot, it is true, be discovered with any certainty (comp. Teufel).