What is the meaning of the word English?

Question

Is it a German word?

Answer 1

People or speech of England," O.E. Englisc, from Engle (pl.) "the Angles," one of the groups that overran the island 5c., supposedly so-called because Angul, the land they inhabited on the Jutland coast, was shaped like a fish hook (but how could they know this from the ground?). The term was used from earliest times without distinction for all the Gmc. invaders -- Angles, Saxon, Jutes (Bede's gens Anglorum) -- and applied to their group of related languages by Alfred the Great. In pronunciation, "En-" has become "In-," but the older spelling has remained. Meaning "English language or literature as a subject at school" is from 1889.

Answer 2

"Of England"

That's what the -ish is for. Sorry, I had to! ;-) But anyway, here's what it means:

England: When Egbert, King of the West-Saxons, in 829, had subjugated the other six Saxon kingdoms, he summoned a general council at Winchester, at which it was declared that henceforth Britain should be called England, its people Englishmen, and himself King of England. Originally the name was Englaland, the land of the Engles, or Angles, who came over from Sleswick, a province of Jutland. Engel (variously spelled), is an old Teutonic word, meaning "angel."

Answer 3

Comes from the name of the German tribe Angles, that came to the territory of present day Great Britain together with Saxons and Jutes.

Answer 4

In general it means deriving from England

Answer 5

comes from Anglais, or something, its French