What is the meaning of -ene?

Forms adjectives relating to places and nouns for their inhabitants.

Forms adjectives and nouns denoting religious groups from personal names.

An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one double bond; an alkene.

An aromatic hydrocarbon based on benzene.

A polymer derived from an alkene.

A single-atom thick two-dimensional layer of atoms.

forms the third-person singular present tense of verbs (conditional mood, indefinite conjugation)

vocative masculine singular of -ēnus

female equivalent of -enis (for female beings)

feminine of -enis (for feminine-gender objects)

female equivalent of -ēns (for female beings)

feminine of -ēns (for feminine-gender objects)

Enclitic form of hem; accusative of hi

used to form the genitive plural of nouns

↑ Hogg, Richard; Fulk, R. D. (2011), A Grammar of Old English, volume 2: Morphology, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →OCLC, §3.9-3.11, pages 73-75

↑ “-en(e), suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 October 2024.

↑ Logan, H[arry] M. (1973), “V. Grammar”, in The dialect of the Life of Saint Katherine: A linguistic study of the phonology and inflections (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica; 130), The Hague: Mouton, →OCLC, § 40, pages 156-157.

↑ Berndt, Rolf (1968), “Bemerkungen zur geschichtlichen Entwicklung der englischen Sprache”, in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, volume 16, number 2, Leipzig: VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, page 167.

↑ Putter, Ad; Judith, Jefferson; Stokes, Myra (2007), “5. The Structure of the A-Verse”, in Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse (Medium Ævum Monographs: New Series; 26)‎, Oxford: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 235.

↑ “-en, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 October 2024.

↑ d'Ardenne, S[imonne] R. T. O. (1961) [1936], “Language”, in Þe Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Iuliene (Early English Text Society; 248), London: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, →OCLC, § 64, page 209.

↑ Mustanoja, Tauno F. (1960), “Cases: Genitive”, in A Middle English Syntax (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki; 23), volume I: Parts of Speech, Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, page 73; republished at Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016, →DOI, →ISBN.

↑ Myers, Sara (26 November 2014), “Chapter 2: Genitive Plural Nouns”, in An investigation of certain aspects of the genitive noun phrase in Middle English (1150-1500) (Thesis)‎, University of Edinburgh, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-08-22, § 2.5.3, page 49.

used to form the inflected infinitive of verbs

↑ Brunner, Karl (1963), Grahame Johnson, transl., An Outline of Middle English Grammar‎, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, translation of Abriss der mittelenglischen Grammatik (in German), →ISBN, →OCLC, § 68, page 71; reprinted 1965.

↑ Mossé, Fernand (1952), “VIII. The Verb”, in James A. Walker, transl., A Handbook of Middle English‎, I. Grammar: Part Two. The Forms, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, translation of Manuel du l'Anglais de Moyen Age des Origines au XIVe Siècle (in French), →OCLC, § 94, page 79.

↑ Jack, George (1992), “The Infinitive in Early Middle English Prose”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen‎, volume 92, number 3, Helsinki: Modern Language Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 312-314.

↑ Mustanoja, Tauno F. (1960), “Verbs: Infinitive”, in A Middle English Syntax (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki; 23), volume I: Parts of Speech, Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, pages 512-513; republished at Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016, →DOI, →ISBN.

↑ Jefferson, Judith; Putter, Ad (2005), “The Distribution of Infinitives in -e and -en in Some Middle English Alliterative Poems”, in Medium Ævum‎, volume 74, number 2, Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, →DOI, →ISSN, page 226.