ing

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭng; IPA^(key): /ɪŋ/
• (General American) enPR: ēng; IPA^(key): /i(ː)ŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ, -iŋ

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”).

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.

• OED 2nd edition 1989

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.

ing (plural ings)

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

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

• ing-bing

• GNI, IGN, NGI, gin, nig

From English -ing.

ing

1. (slang) in the process of; currently

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

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

Uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from an Iranian language.[1]

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

ing (plural ingek)

1. shirt

   Coordinate terms: blúz, póló

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

ing

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

or

• (wobble): inog

(With verbal prefixes):

• (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

ing

1. in
2. on
3. at

ing

1. water

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ʔĩ˥/

ing

1. house

• 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, Payap University, page 46

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

• IPA^(key): /inɡ/, [iŋɡ]

ing f (nominative plural inga or inge)

1. meadow, water meadow, ing

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈiŋ]

ing

1. Alternative form of ingi

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

From English ink.

ing

1. ink

• in, yn, i, ee, eee

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

• IPA^(key): /iːn/, /iː/
• Homophones: e'en, een, ieen

ing

1. in
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 84:

     Yerstey w'had a baree, gist ing oor hoane,

     Yesterday we had a goal just in our hand.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:

     Th' heiftem o' pley vell all ing to lug;

     The weight of the play fell into the hollow;

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:

     An broughet ee stell, ing a emothee knaghane.

     And broke the handle in a pismire-hill.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 12, page 88:

     Licke a mope an a mile, he gazt ing a mize;

     Like a fool in a mill, he looked in amazement;

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 12, page 88:

     Oore joys all ee-smort ing a emothee knaghane.

     Our joys are all smothered in a pismire-hill.

   • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX, page 131:

     Wathere proceeds to tell that the game was “was jist ing our hone”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• 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