Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc. · A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve. · A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album. · A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
From Middle English henge (“hinge”), from Old English *henġ or *henġe (“hinge”), from Proto-West Germanic *hangiju or *hangī; compare Old English *henġe- in henġeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English henġen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”). Akin to Scots heenge (“hinge”), Saterland Frisian Hänge (“hinge”), Low German henge (“hook, hinge, handle”), Dutch heng (“moving leaf of a hinge”), Dutch geheng (“hinge”), Middle Dutch henghe, hanghe (“hook, hinge, handle”), Scots hingel (“any attachment by which something is hung or fastened”), Dutch hengel (“hook”), hengsel (“handle”), dialectal German Hängel (“hook, joint”), Henkel (“handle, hook”), Danish hængsel (“hinge”), Faroese hongsl (“hinge”), Icelandic hengsli (“hinge”), Norwegian hengsel (“hinge”), Swedish hängsle (“suspender”), Old English hōn (“to hang”), Old English hangian (“to cause to hang, hang up”). More at hang.
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- Inherited-form mentionhengeenm
- Inherited-form mention*henġang
- Derivation mention*hangijugmw-pro
- Cognate mention*henġeang
- Cognate mentionhenġenang
- Cognate mentionheengesco
- Cognate mentionHängestq
- Cognate mentionhengends
- Cognate mentionhengnl
- Cognate mentiongehengnl
- Cognate mentionhenghedum
- Cognate mentionhingelsco
- Cognate mentionhengelnl
- Cognate mentionHängelde
- Cognate mentionhængselda
- Cognate mentionhongslfo
- Cognate mentionhengsliis
- Cognate mentionhengselno
- Cognate mentionhängslesv
- Cognate mentionhōnang
- Cognate mentionhangianang
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