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English

Alternative forms

• bodie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English bodi, bodi?, from Old English bodi?, bode? (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd?- (“to be awake, observe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?di/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?di/, [?b??i]
• Rhymes: -?di
• Hyphenation: bod?y
• Homophone: bawdy (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)

1. Physical frame.
   1. The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]

      I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.

   2. The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. [from 13th c.]

      The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.

   3. A corpse. [from 13th c.]

      Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.

   4. (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person. [from 13th c.]
      • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 463:

        Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […]

      • 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 28:

        Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.

      What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?

   5. (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
      • 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)

        This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.

      • 2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations (page 3)

        In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.

      • 2016, Laura Harrison, Brown Bodies, White Babies (page 5)

        As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brown bodies are deployed in the creation of white babies.

2. Main section.
   1. The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]

      The boxer took a blow to the body.

   2. The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. [from 11th c.]

      The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.

   3. (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. [from 16th c.]

      Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.

   4. The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. [from 17th c.]
   5. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
   6. (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. [from 20th c.]

      In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.

3. Coherent group.
   1. A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]

      I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.

   2. An organisation, company or other authoritative group. [from 17th c.]

      The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.

   3. A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. [from 17th c.]

      We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.

4. Material entity.
   1. Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]

      All bodies are held together by internal forces.

   2. (uncountable) Substance; physical presence. [from 17th c.]
      • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

        The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

      We have given body to what was just a vague idea.

   3. (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). [from 17th c.]

      The red wine, sadly, lacked body.

   4. An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
      • 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:

        In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […]

      • 2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, "World's largest extrusive body of sand?", Geology, volume 40, issue 5

        Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km³) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.

      • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

        The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole. 

      The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.

5. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).

   a nonpareil face on an agate body

   • 1992, Mary Kay Duggan, ?Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (page 99)

     The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition.

6. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:body
• See also Thesaurus:corpse

Derived terms

Pages starting with “body”.

Translations

See also

• corporal
• corporeal

Verb

body (third-person singular simple present bodies, present participle bodying, simple past and past participle bodied)

1. To give body or shape to something.

   And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name. — Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
3. (transitive) To embody.
4. (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
5. (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
6. (transitive, slang, video games) to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.

References

Anagrams

• BYOD, Boyd, Doby, do by

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bod?/
• Rhymes: -od?
• Hyphenation: bo?dy

Etymology 1

From English body, bodysuit.

Noun

body n (indeclinable)

1. bodysuit, leotard

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

body

1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of bod

Anagrams

• doby

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English body.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.di/
• Hyphenation: bo?dy

Noun

body m (plural body's, diminutive body'tje n)

1. A leotard.
2. Body, substance.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?body/, [?bo?dy]
• IPA^(key): /?bodi/, [?bo?di]
• Rhymes: -ody
• Homophone: bodi
• Syllabification: bo?dy

Noun

body

1. snapsuit, diaper shirt, onesies (infant bodysuit)

Declension

Pronunciation ?body:

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.di/

Noun

body m (invariable)

1. leotard

   Synonym: calzamaglia

Further reading

• body in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Scots

Alternative forms

• bodie

Etymology

From Middle English body, bodi?, from Old English bodi?, bode? (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”).

Noun

body (plural bodies)

1. body
2. person, human being

Spanish

Noun

body m (plural bodys or bodies)

1. bodysuit

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?ng, IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: wring

Etymology 1

From Middle English ring, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreng?-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with West Frisian ring, Low German Ring, Dutch ring, German Ring, Swedish ring, also Finnish rengas. Doublet of rink.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
   1. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

      Synonyms: annulus, hoop, torus

   2. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
   3. (Britain) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
   4. (Britain) A burner on a kitchen stove.
   5. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
   6. (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
   7. (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
2. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
   1. A circular group of people or objects.
   2. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
   3. (Britain) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
3. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

4. A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
   • 1707, Edmund Smith, Phaedra and Hippolitus

     Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.

   1. The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
6. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
   • 1877, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England

     the ruling ring at Constantinople

   • 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston

     It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot.
7. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.

8. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
9. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
10. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
    • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, page 168.

      The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties

11. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
    • 2007, Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation (page 70)

      Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3.

12. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
13. (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

Derived terms

Translations

Gallery

Verb

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past and past participle ringed)

1. (transitive) To enclose or surround.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.

3. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
   • 1919, Popular Science (volume 95, number 4, page 31)

     Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.

4. (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
5. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
6. (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
   • A. Woodley, Trio: 3 short stories

     Gabe said that as Derry had only caught part of the conversation, it's possible that they were discussing a film, it was bad enough that they'd unwittingly been brought into ringing cars, adding drugs into it was far more than either of them could ever be comfortable with.

   • 2019 (10 December), Ross McCarthy, Digbeth chop shop gang jailed over £2m stolen car racket (in Birmingham Live) [2]

     They used two bases in Digbeth to break down luxury motors, some of which were carjacked or stolen after keys were taken in house raids. The parts were then fitted to salvaged cars bought online. […] Jailing the quartet, a judge at Birmingham Crown Court said it was a "car ringing on a commercial and substantial scale".

Derived terms

• ringer
• ring-fence, ringfence

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ringen, from Old English hrin?an (“to ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringijan?. Cognate with Dutch ringen, Swedish ringa.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

2. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.

3. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

4. (colloquial) A telephone call.

5. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

   • the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears

6. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

   • as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world

Derived terms

• give a ring
• ringtone
• ringback

Translations

Verb

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past rang or (nonstandard) rung, past participle rung)

1. (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

2. (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
3. (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.

   They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

5. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

6. (transitive, colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).

7. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.

   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that "the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man."

8. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

     Four Bells admit Twenty-four changes in Ringing

9. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From a shortening of German Zahlring (“number(s) ring”) (coined by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1892). Apparently first used in English in 1930, E. T. Bell, “Rings whose elements are ideals,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.

2. (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.

Hypernyms

• pseudo-ring
• semiring

Hyponyms

• algebra over a field
• commutative ring
  • integral domain
    • unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain
      • principal ideal domain
        • Euclidean domain
          • field

Meronyms

• group of units
• ideal

Derived terms

• Boolean ring
• polynomial ring

Translations

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.

Hyponyms

• algebra (of sets)
• ?-ring

Translations

References

Anagrams

• NGRI, girn, grin

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch ring, from Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch ring, from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??/

Noun

ring (plural ringe)

1. ring, hollow circular object

Atong (India)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun

ring

1. taro

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Balinese

Preposition

ring

1. in, at (basa alus)

   Synonym: di (basa biasa)

Cimbrian

Adjective

ring

1. (of weight) light

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• Homophone: rynk

Noun

ring m inan

1. ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

Declension

Further reading

• ring in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ring in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ren?/, [?æ??]

Noun

ring c (singular definite ringen, plural indefinite ringe)

1. ring
2. circle
3. halo
4. hoop
5. coil

Inflection

Derived terms

• vielsesring

Etymology 2

Verbal noun to ringe (“to ring”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ren?/, [?æ??]

Noun

ring n (singular definite ringet, plural indefinite ring)

1. (archaic) ring (the resonant sound of a bell, a telephone call)

Inflection

Etymology 3

See ringe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ren?/, [?æ??]

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringe

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch ring, from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??/
• Hyphenation: ring
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

ring m (plural ringen, diminutive ringetje n)

1. ring, hollow circular object
2. (gymnastics) ring
3. beltway, ring road

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ring
• ? Indonesian: ring

See also

• kring

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German rink. Compare German Ring. See also rõngas.

Noun

ring (genitive ringi, partitive ringi)

1. circle

Declension

See also

• rõngas

French

Etymology

From English ring (sense 1) and Dutch ring (sense 2).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i??/

Noun

ring m (plural rings)

1. (sports, chiefly combat sports) ring
2. (Belgium) ring road, beltway

Derived terms

• ring de boxe

Further reading

• “ring” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Garo

Noun

ring

1. boat

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???]

Verb

ring

1. singular imperative of ringen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of ringen

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ri??]
• Hyphenation: ring
• Rhymes: -i??

Etymology 1

From an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root + -g (frequentative suffix).

Verb

ring

1. (intransitive) to swing, to rock

   Synonyms: billeg, inog, ingadozik, himbálózik, himbálódzik

2. (intransitive, of a ship) to sway, to roll

   Synonyms: ringatózik, ringatódzik, dülöng, dülöngél, himbálódzik, himbálózik

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

• ringat

Etymology 2

From English ring.

Noun

ring (plural ringek)

1. (dated, boxing) ring, boxing ring (space in which a boxing match is contested)

   Synonym: szorító

Declension

References

Further reading

• (to roll, sway, swing): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (boxing ring): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (in economy, cf. cartel): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r??]
• Hyphenation: ring

Noun

ring (first-person possessive ringku, second-person possessive ringmu, third-person possessive ringnya)

1. (onomatopoeia) sound of bell.

Etymology 2

From Dutch ring, from Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch ring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz. Doublet of langsir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r??]
• Hyphenation: ring

Noun

ring

1. ring,
   1. a circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

      Synonyms: cincin, gelang

   2. boxing ring.
2. (colloquial) circle

   Synonym: lingkaran

Further reading

• “ring” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringer, definite plural ringene)

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringe

References

• “ring” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringar, definite plural ringane)

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place

Derived terms

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringja, ringje, ringa and ringe

References

• “ring” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ring m

1. ring, circle

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: rinc
  • Dutch: ring
  • Limburgish: rink

Further reading

• “rink”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ring m

1. ring (object in the shape of a circle)

Descendants

• Middle High German: rinc, ring
  • German: Ring
  • Luxembourgish: Rank
  • Yiddish: ????? (ring)

Polish

Etymology

From English ring, from Middle English ring, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreng?-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?ink/

Noun

ring m inan

1. (boxing) boxing ring

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) ringowy

Further reading

• ring in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ring in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

ring m (plural rings)

1. Alternative form of ringue

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English ring.

Noun

r?ng m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. the ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

Declension

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Spanish

Etymology

From English ring. Doublet of rancho.

Noun

ring m (plural rings)

1. (boxing) ring

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish ringer, from Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ring c

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place
3. (mathematics) A ring, algebraic structure
4. (mathematics) A ring, planar geometrical figure
5. (astronomy) A ring, collection of material orbiting some planets
6. Each of the (usually three) years in a Swedish gymnasium (highschool)

Declension

Derived terms

• vigselring

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringa.

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ring c (plural ringen, diminutive rinkje)

1. ring, circle
2. ring (jewelry)

Derived terms

• ringje
• earring

Further reading

• “ring”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011