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== Translingual == === Etymology === Clipping of English Ende. === Symbol === end (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ende. === See also === Wiktionary’s coverage of Ende terms == English == === Alternative forms === eend, ende (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“forehead; front”), from *h₂ent- (“face; forehead; front”), from *h₂en- (“on, onto”). The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz. === Pronunciation === enPR: ĕnd, IPA(key): /ɛnd/ (dialectal, obsolete) enPR: ēnd, IPA(key): /iːnd/ (corresponding to the form eend) (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /ɪnd/ Homophone: Ind (pin–pen merger) Rhymes: -ɛnd, -ɪnd === Noun === end (plural ends) The terminal point of something in space or time. (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. (by extension, often with "the") Death. 1732, Alexander Pope, (epitaph) On Mr. Gay, in Westminster Abbey: A safe companion and an easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide. Result. 1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (volume 4, issue 3, part 2, page 3154) The end was that he was thought an archfool. A purpose, goal, or aim. Synonym: purpose (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory) That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money. ==== Synonyms ==== (final point in space or time): conclusion, limit, terminus, termination See also Thesaurus:goal ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “final point of something”): beginning, start ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Collocations ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Japanese: エンド ==== Translations ==== === Verb === end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended) (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end. (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end. (transitive) To finish, terminate. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === DEN, DNE, Den, Den., NDE, NED, Ned, den, edn., ned == Albanian == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Albanian *antis/t, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂n̥t-jes/t (“to plait, weave”). ==== Verb ==== end (aorist enda, participle endur) (transitive) to weave Synonyms: vej, vegjoj ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== endem === Etymology 2 === Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂endʰ-. probably from Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos), or from Proto-Albanian *anda ==== Verb ==== end (aorist enda, participle endur) (intransitive) to bloom, blossom (transitive) to flyblow ===== Derived terms ===== endëc ===== Related terms ===== endë === References === == Danish == === Etymology 1 === From Old Norse en, earlier an, probably from Proto-Germanic *þan (“then”), like English than, German denn (“than, for”). For the loss of þ-, compare Old Norse at (“that”) from Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ɛn/ ==== Conjunction ==== end than (in comparisons) === Etymology 2 === From Old Norse enn, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entí. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ɛn/ ==== Adverb ==== end (archaic) still (with interrogatives) no matter, ever even (in the modern language only in the combination end ikke "not even") === Etymology 3 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈɛnˀ/ ==== Verb ==== end imperative of ende == Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch ende (“end”) with apocope of the final -e. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛnt/ Hyphenation: end Rhymes: -ɛnt === Noun === end n (plural enden, diminutive endje n) (colloquial) alternative form of eind De winkel is daar aan 't end van de weg. ― The shop is there at the end of the road. 't Is nog een een end vanaf hier. ― There is still a considerable distance to travel from here. === Anagrams === den == Estonian == === Pronoun === end partitive singular of ise == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== end alternative form of ende === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== end alternative form of enden == Norwegian Bokmål == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛnd/, /ɛn/ Rhymes: -ɛnd, -ɛn Hyphenation: end Homophone: enn === Verb === end imperative of ende === Anagrams === den, ned == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Verb === end imperative of enda == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /end/ === Conjunction === end alternative form of and == Vilamovian == === Alternative forms === ent === Etymology === From Middle High German ende, from Old High German enti, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“face; forehead; front”). === Noun === end n end ==== Antonyms ==== ofaong