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).

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: Blackwell, →ISBN, pages 73-75

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

↑ “-en, suf.(8).”, 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.