Anglian

[ang-glee-uh n]

adjective

Also Anglic. of or relating to the Angles or to East Anglia.

noun

an Angle.
the northern and central group of Old English dialects, spoken in Northumbria and Mercia.

Origin of Anglian

First recorded in 1720–30; Angli(a) + -an

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Related Words for anglian

Anglian, OE

Examples from the Web for anglian

Historical Examples of anglian

The Anglian learned to feast to repletion, and drink to delirium.
Harold, Complete
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is a nicer difficulty to account for the choice of the Anglian name.
Amenities of Literature
Isaac Disraeli
"It has had enough to eat already," said an Anglian passenger who was standing near them.
Captain Jinks, Hero
Ernest Crosby
"It is the part of Anglian thanes to die with their king," said Sighard angrily.
A King's Comrade
Charles Whistler
The same was probably the case with the whole Anglian coast on the east.
Early Britain
Grant Allen

British Dictionary definitions for anglian

Anglian

adjective

of or relating to the Angles or to the Anglian dialects of Old English

noun

the group of Old and Middle English dialects spoken in the Midlands and the north of England, divided into Mercian and NorthumbrianSee also Kentish, West Saxon

Anglian

"of the Angles," 1726; see Angle. The Old English word was Englisc, but as this came to be used in reference to the whole Germanic people of Britain, a new word was wanted to describe this one branch of them.