ing

Pronunciation: /ɪŋ/

The English word “ing” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.
The letter for the ng sound /ŋ/ in Pitman shorthand.

Etymology

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”),…

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