eang

• aga, ang, eag, eing, feag, ig, ing

From Old Irish eng (“track, trace”).

• IPA^(key): /aŋ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɨ̞ɡ/[1] (corresponding to the form eag)

eang f (genitive singular eanga, nominative plural eangaí)

1. track, footprint

   Chuaigh mé ar eang an tsionnaigh

   I tracked the fox.

   eang ar eang ― step by step; one after another

2. gusset
3. splice, strip
4. notch; nick, groove

• treoir-eang
• eangach
• eangaigh

• “eang”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “eang”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 278
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “eang”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “eang” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “eang” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Middle Welsh ehang, from Proto-Brythonic *ehang, from Proto-Celtic *exs-angus (“not narrow”), from *exs- (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”); see ech-) and *angus (“narrow”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰus (“narrow”)).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.aŋ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈeː.aŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛaŋ

eang (feminine singular eang, plural eang, equative ehanged, comparative ehangach, superlative ehangaf)

1. wide, broad, extensive

   Antonyms: cul, cyfyng

• band eang (“broadband”)
• byd-eang (“worldwide, global”)
• eangfrydig (“open-minded”)
• ehangder (“breadth, expanse”)
• ehangiad (“extension, expansion”)
• ehangu (“to expand, to enlarge”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “eang”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies