anglais

See also: Anglais

French

Etymology

Angle +‎ -ais (“-ese”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ɡlɛ/

• audio (France):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛ

Noun

anglais m (uncountable)

1. English language

   Il parle anglais ― He speaks English

Adjective

anglais (feminine anglaise, masculine plural anglais, feminine plural anglaises)

1. English

   Il est anglais ― He is English.

   Ceci n’est pas un avion anglais. ― This is not an English airplane

2. (Louisiana) Anglo-American or Anglophone.

   Synonym: yankee

Usage notes

• anglais is often used to refer to all British people

Related terms

• anglophone
• Angleterre
• angliche
• anglaiser
• filer à l’anglaise

Descendants

• → English: Angrez
• → Hindi: अंग्रेज़ (aṅgrez)
• Tamil: Angileya ஆங்கிலேய
• → Wolof: Angale

Further reading

• “anglais”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• alignas, glanais, sanglai, signala

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Irish

Alternative forms

• angarais, eanglais

Etymology

From Old Irish englas, anglas f (“a weak, mixed beverage, milk diluted with water; whey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaŋɡləʃ/

Noun

anglais f (genitive singular anglaise)

1. milk and water
2. (of person) milksop

Declension

Declension of anglais

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative anglais Vocative a anglais Genitive anglaise Dative anglais

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an anglais Genitive na hanglaise Dative leis an anglais don anglais

Derived terms

• anglais tae (“weak, lukewarm, tea”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anglais	n-anglais	hanglais	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anglais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “englas, anglas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language