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Middle English
Etymology 1
Probably originally two distinct nouns, though no clear semantic separation can be established:
- Old English sting, from Proto-West Germanic *sting, from Proto-Germanic *stingaz.
- Old English stynġ, from Proto-West Germanic *stungi, from Proto-Germanic *stungiz, both nouns ultimately related to *stinganą.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
styng (plural stynges)
- A sting; a sharp pain, especially that caused by a stinger.
- a. 1333, “Poem 12: Tu rex glorie Christe; Fol. 208v”, in William Herebert, transl., Opera (British Library MS. Add. 46919), Hereford; republished as The Works of William Herebert, OFM (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse), [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan, a. 2018:
- Þou þat ouercóme þe bitter déthes stunchg, / Þou openedest hœuene ryche to ryth byleues þrunchg.
- You who overcame the bitter sting of death, / You opened the Kingdom of Heaven to true belief's throng.
- (rare) A stinger; the point used by an insect to sting.
Descendants
References
- “sting, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Verb
styng
- (Late Middle English or Northern) alternative form of styngen
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
styng m (definite singular styngen, indefinite plural stynger, definite plural styngene)
Old English
Etymology
Probably from Proto-West Germanic *stungi, from Proto-Germanic *stungiz. Less likely, a spelling variant of sting, from Proto-West Germanic *sting, from Proto-Germanic *stingaz. Either way, from the root of stingan.
Noun
stynġ, styng m
- alternative form of sting
- 1890 [c. 731], Saint Bede (the Venerable), The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, page 122:
- sette þa his lichoman betweoh beforan þam stynge
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Strong i-stem:
Strong a-stem:
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