Noun: ingle
| Singular | ingle |
| Plural | ingles |
Sample Sentences
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Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, / Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely [1790, Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter:]
Nouns inflected like ingle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Scots ingle, ingill, from Scottish Gaelic aingeal (“fire, light”), from Old Irish aingel, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥ (“coal”). Cognate with Irish aingeal. See: Irish Nouns '
aingeal'.