ing

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ing"

Translingual

Symbol

ing

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Deg Xinag.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Deg Xinag terms

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.

   Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands.

   • 1773, Journals of the House of Commons:

     Bill for dividing and inclosing certain open common fields, ings, common pastures, and other commonable lands.

   • 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

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “ing”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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

Cebuano markers

		Direct		Indirect		Oblique
		Definite	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite
Common	Singular	ang	ing†, 'y	sa, sang†	og	sa
	Plural	ang mga	ing mga†, 'y mga	sa mga, sang mga†	og mga	sa mga
Personal	Singular	si		ni		kang*
	Plural	sila ni, silang sa†		nila ni, nilang na†		(kan)ila ni*, (kan)ilang* ka†
†Archaic *Indirect personal forms used instead in colloquial speech.

Further reading

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

Chinese

Etymology

From English -ing.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

ing

1. (slang) in the process of; currently

References

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