Noun: ing
Sample Sentences
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Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands.
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Bill for dividing and inclosing certain open common fields, ings, common pastures, and other commonable lands. [1773, Journals of the House of Commons:]
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[There] lay an extent of meadow grounds, in ings, to afford a supply of hay. [1804, Marshall (William), On the Landed Property of England, possibly quoting an earlier work]
Nouns inflected like ing
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 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”). See: Old English Nouns '
ing', Dutch Nouns '
eng', Danish Nouns '
eng', Swedish Nouns '
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