Ing

//ɪŋ// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.

    "Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands."

  2. 2
    The letter for the ng sound /ŋ/ in Pitman shorthand.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname

Synonyms

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-ery-age-ment-thagebalder

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""Mister"ing a tick? You're a funny kid."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English ing, ynge, enge, from Old English ing, *eng (“a meadow; ing”), from Proto-Germanic *angijō (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énkos (“a bend; curve; bowl; hollow; dell; glen”), from *h₂enk- (“to bend; curve; bow”). Cognate with Scots eng (“ing; meadow”), Dutch eng (“pasture; farmland”), Danish eng (“meadow”), Swedish äng (“meadow; field”), Norwegian eng (“meadow”), Faroese ong (“grassland; meadow; pasture”), Icelandic eng (“a meadow”), Icelandic engi (“a meadow; meadowland”).

Etymology 2

From Pitman em and en, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. The change in vowel probably reflects the familiar suffix -ing.

Related phrases

Ing-Manske procedureem enen enpart of speechpitman shorthandpresent participleverbal nounwater meadowy t

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