end

From Proto-Albanian *antis/t, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂n̥t-jes/t (“to plait, weave”).


end

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂endʰ-. probably from Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos), or from Proto-Albanian *anda


end

Han er venligere end hende.

Han er venligere end hun er.

From Old Norse en, earlier an, probably from Proto-Germanic *þan (“then”), like English than, German denn (“than, for”). For the loss of þ-, compare Old Norse at (“that”) from Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”).


end

Thi end bestandig gælder de gamle, gyldne ord.

For the old, golden words are still continually valid.

Hvor man end er, kan man føle sig alene.

End ikke statsministeren kan nå alt.

Not even the primeminister can get everything done.

even (in the modern language only in the combination end ikke "not even")

From Old Norse enn, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entí.


end

De winkel is daar aan 't end van de weg.

The shop is there at the end of the road.

't Is nog een een end vanaf hier.

There is still a considerable distance to travel from here.

nl-noun

end n (plural enden, diminutive endje n)

enden (plural)
endje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch ende (“end”) with apocope of the final -e.


end

they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end.

1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

At the end of the road, turn left.

At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.

The terminal point of something in space or time.

Is there no end to this madness?

The new electronic switching system means expanded service and an end to irritances such as cross-talk, line-hum, and being cut off in mid-conversation.

1986, The Army Communicator, volume 11, number 2, page 46:

(by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.

He met a terrible end in the jungle.

I hope the end comes quickly.

Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end.

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

A safe companion and an easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.

1732, Alexander Pope, (epitaph) On Mr. Gay, in Westminster Abbey

Hold the string at both ends.

My father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.

All the ends of the woꝛld ſhall remember, and turne vnto the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations ſhall woꝛſhip befoꝛe thee.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 22:27:

The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.

O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!

1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

The end was that he was thought an archfool.

1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (volume 4, issue 3, part 2, page 3154)

For what end should I toil?

The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.

But, losing her, the End of Living lose.

1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act III:

When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.

1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, Aphorism VI, page 146:

There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.

1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:

The Pavillion End

(cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.

Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven […].

1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.

(curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.

(mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)

odds and ends

I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.

One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!

(in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.

beginning

antonym(s) of “final point of something”

snitches get stitches and end up in ditches

→ Japanese: エンド

loppu

usually in time or when there is a "beginning"

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos, from *h₂ent- (“front, forehead”).
See also Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände; also Old Irish ét (“end, point”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Albanian anë (“side”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Sanskrit अन्त्य (antya, “last”). More at and and anti-.
The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz.


end

Is this movie never going to end?

The lesson will end when the bell rings.

(intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.

The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.

cmene always end with a consonant followed by a mandatory pause (a period). No other Lojban word ends with a consonant.

(intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.

The referee blew the whistle to end the game.

And on the seventh day God ended his worke[…]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:2:

If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

But play the man, stand up and end you, / When your sickness is your soul.

1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8:

So, subject to the salvaging of serviceable parts, all five were withdrawn for breaking up in 1936-7, and thus ended one of the shortest histories of an important locomotive class on record.

1949 May and June, R. A. H. Weight, “A Short-Lived Pacific Class”, in Railway Magazine, page 196:

Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.

2013 November 9, “How to stop the fighting, sometimes”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8861:

en-verb

end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended)

ends (present singular third-person)
ending (participle present)
ended (participle past)
ended (past)
ende (alternative)

Father Charles goes down and ends battle

mbaron

intransitive: be finished, be terminated

أَنْهَى

transitive: finish, terminate (something)


end

From Middle High German ende, from Old High German enti.