endware

== English == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle English *endeware, from Old English *endeware (literally “village people”), from ende (“end, extremity”) +‎ -ware (“inhabitants”), metonymically extended from the inhabitants of a settlement to the settlement itself. Compare endship for a similar formation. === Pronunciation === (Early Modern) IPA(key): /ˈɛndˌwæːr/ === Noun === endware (plural endwares) (Early Modern, northwestern Essex, rare) A hamlet or township; a small settlement or locality. === Further reading === “Essex: end of the road for an Old English Suffix?”, in Philoloblog‎[1] (blog), 13 April 2016, archived from the original on 21 November 2023