# end

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɛnd/ · frequency rank #196

## Definitions
1. The terminal point of something in space or time.
2. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
3. Death.
4. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
5. Result.
6. A purpose, goal, or aim.
7. One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
8. The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
9. A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
10. An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
11. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
12. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
13. Money.

## Etymology
From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“forehead; front”), from *h₂ent- (“face; forehead; front”), from *h₂en- (“on, onto”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola een, eene (“end”), Saterland Frisian Eend, Eende (“end”), West Frisian ein (“end”), Alemannic German End, Endi (“end”), Central Franconian Eng, Enk (“end”), Cimbrian énte (“end”), Dutch eind, einde, end (“end”), German Ende (“end”), Luxembourgish Enn (“end”), Vilamovian end, ent (“end”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ende (“end”), Faroese endi (“end”), Icelandic endi, endir (“end”), Swedish ända, ände (“end”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃 (andeis, “end”); also Irish éadan (“end; front”), Manx eddin (“face; front”), Scottish Gaelic aodann (“face; hillside”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Albanian anë (“brink; edge; facet; side”), Latvian no (“for; from”), Lithuanian nuo (“for; from”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian на (na, “on”), Czech, Kashubian, Lower Sorbian, Polish, Slovak, and Slovene na (“on”), Serbo-Croatian на, na (“on”), Old Armenian ընդ (ənd, “in the place, instead of”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy, “against; towards; upon”), Tocharian A ānt (“in front”), Tocharian B ānte (“in front of”), Sanskrit अन्त (anta, “boundary; border, edge; end, termination”). 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.

## Easily confused with
- **ex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-ex)
- **et** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-et)
- **EU** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-eu)
- **er** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-er)
- **EP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-ep)
- **ES** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-es)
- **EV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-ev)
- **ew** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-ew)
- **ey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-ey)
- **ez** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-ez)
- **eo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-eo)
- **eye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-eye)
- **era** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-era)
- **eve** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-eve)
- **est** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-est)
- **EPA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-epa)
- **EVA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-eva)
- **eng** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-eng)
- **EPS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-eps)
- **err** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-err)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/end