-(e)n(e) [-en, -ne, -n]

Morpheme

-(e)n(e) [-en, -ne, -n]

Type

suffix

Denotation

verb suffix forming the past participle of strong verbs

Etymology

Middle English -n, -en; Old English -en and Old Norse -inn; Proto-Germanic *-anaz

Evidence

arisen, awoken, beaten, been, bidden, bitten, blown, born, borne, broken, chosen, disproven, done, drawn, driven, drunken, eaten, fallen, flown, forgiven, forgotten, forsaken, frozen, given, glown, gone, gotten, grown, hewn, hidden, known, mistaken, mown, own, paven, proven, ridden, risen, sawn, screwn, seen, sewn, shaken, shown, smitten, sown, spoken, stolen, sworn, taken, thrown, woken, written

See Also

-ed, -t

Homographs

En, En, en-, -(e)n [-en, -n], -(e)n [-en, -n], -en, -en, -en, -en, -en, Ne, Ne, ne-, N, n-, -n-, -n, -ene, -ene, -ene