ing

English Online Dictionary. What means ing‎? What does ing mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ĭng; IPA^(key): /ɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

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”).

Noun

ing (plural ings)

1. (now only in dialects) A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.
   • 1804, Marshall (William), On the Landed Property of England, possibly quoting an earlier work:

     [There] lay an extent of meadow grounds, in ings, to afford a supply of hay.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

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.

Noun

ing (plural ings)

1. The letter for the ng sound /ŋ/ in Pitman shorthand.

Related terms

• eng, the name of the IPA letter for this sound

See also

• ing-bing

Anagrams

• IGN, Gin, gin, nig, NGI, GNI

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• 'y — contraction, appended to the preceding word

Etymology

Compare with Kapampangan ing, Tausug in.

Article

ing

1. (archaic) indefinite direct marker for nouns other than personal names.

   Synonym: 'y — sense narrowed down

See also

Further reading

• https://archive.org/details/aqp5055.0001.001.umich.edu/page/173/mode/2up

Chinese

Etymology

From English -ing.

Pronunciation

Adverb

ing

1. (slang) in the process of; currently

References

• http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11204

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈiŋɡ]
• Hyphenation: ing
• Rhymes: -iŋɡ

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from an Iranian language.

Alternative forms

• üng, ümög, ümeg, imeg, imég (all are dialectal)

Noun

ing (plural ingek)

1. shirt

   Coordinate terms: blúz, póló

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

An earlier form of the verb inog (“to wobble”).

Verb

ing

2. (intransitive) to wobble
3. (intransitive) to swing

Conjugation

or

Synonyms

• (wobble): inog

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• (shirt): ing in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (to wobble): ing in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Javanese

Preposition

ing

1. in
2. on
3. at

Jirajara

Noun

ing

1. water

References

• Luis Oramas, Materiales para el estudio de los dialectos Ayamán, Gayón, Jirajara, Ajagua (1916)

Khumi Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔim, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kim (“house, womb”). Cognate to Burmese အိမ် (im) and S'gaw Karen ဟံၣ် (heè).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔĩ˥/

Noun

ing

1. house

Derived terms

References

• R. Shafer (1944) “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, number 2, page 418
• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[1], Payap University, page 46

Lautu Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔim, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kim (“house, womb”). Cognate to Burmese အိမ် (im) and S'gaw Karen ဟံၣ် (heè).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪŋ/

Noun

ing

1. house

References

• Rachel Gray, Jose Benavides (2022) “Wh-Question Formation in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎^[2], volume 3, number 1

Old English

Etymology

Apparently borrowed from Old Norse eng or possibly inherited directly from Proto-Germanic *angijō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inɡ/, [iŋɡ]

Noun

ing f (nominative plural inga or inge)

1. meadow, water meadow, ing

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

Ternate

Etymology

From the older ingi, with word-final vowel deletion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈiŋ]

Noun

ing

1. Alternative form of ingi

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English ink.

Noun

ing

1. ink

Yola

Alternative forms

• in, yn, i, ee, eee

Etymology

From Middle English ine, in, i, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋ/, /ɪn/, /iː/

Preposition

ing

1. in

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 48