different between eng vs ing

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Probably from Dutch eng (“narrow”), also confer Old English enge (“narrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *ang?, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *anguz.

No mention of the word is found in any surviving Middle English text, save for the Middle English compound word ang-nail. Related to Dutch eng (“narrow”), German eng (“narrow”), Low German enj (“confined, narrow”), Luxembourgish enk (“narrow”).

Adjective

eng

1. (regional, obsolete) Narrow.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• The Middle English Dictionary
• bosworthtoller.com

Etymology 2

Noun

eng (plural engs)

1. Roman alphabet ?: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink.

Synonyms

• agma
• (?): engma

Anagrams

• -gen, GEN, Gen, Gen., gen, gen., neg, neg.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *anga, related to Lithuanian angùs (“sluggish, lazy, idle”), éngti (“to strangle”), Latvian îgt (“to wear off, to languish”), and Gothic ???????????????????????? (aggwus, “narrow”).

Adjective

eng m (feminine enge)

1. deaf and dumb

Synonyms

• shtemët

Related terms

• ang

References

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse eng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?/, [???]

Noun

eng c (singular definite engen, plural indefinite enge)

1. A meadow.

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “eng” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “eng” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch enge, from Old Dutch *engi, from Proto-West Germanic *ang?, from Proto-Germanic *anguz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?én??us. Cognate with German eng, from Old High German engi.

Adjective

eng (comparative enger, superlative engst)

1. narrow
2. small
3. scary, creepy

Inflection

Derived terms

• doodeng
• engte

Descendants

• Afrikaans: eng
• ?? English: eng

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch enc.

Noun

eng m (plural engen)

1. Alternative form of enk.

Anagrams

• gen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German enge, from Old High German engi, from Proto-West Germanic *ang?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Adjective

eng (comparative enger, superlative am engsten)

1. narrow, tight

Declension

Related terms

• Angst
• enganliegend
• engbefreundet
• Enge
• engen
• Engheit
• engherzig
• Engelaut
• Engpaß
• engsichtig

Further reading

• “eng” in Duden online

Kosraean

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *a?in, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ha?in. Compare Tagalog hangin, Malagasy anina, Pohnpeian ahng, Fijian cagi, Tongan angi, Samoan agi, Hawaiian ani.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?/

Noun

eng

1. wind

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ?/

Article

eng f

1. Feminine singular indefinite article; a, an

   Si huet zwéin Hënn an eng Kaz

   She has two dogs and a cat

Declension

Mandarin

Romanization

eng

1. Nonstandard spelling of ?ng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse eng

Noun

eng f or m (definite singular enga or engen, indefinite plural enger, definite plural engene)

1. a meadow

Derived terms

• blomstereng
• kløvereng
• slåtteeng

References

• “eng” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse eng, from Proto-Germanic *angij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

eng f (definite singular enga, indefinite plural enger, definite plural engene)

1. a meadow

Inflection

References

• “eng” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e??/, [????]

Determiner

?ng

1. Alternative form of ?nich

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• engi

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *angij? f.

Noun

eng f or n

1. meadow

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• eng1 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• eng2 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Uzbek

Etymology

From Old Turkic ????? (? /e?/). Cognate with Azerbaijani ?n, Kyrgyz ?? (eñ), Turkish en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Adverb

eng

1. the most ..., the ...-est (marks the superlative degree of adjectives)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Noun

eng f (plural engiau)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Ng.

Mutation

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i/i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u/u bedol, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd ^{(Category: cy:Latin letter names)}

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ing, ynge, enge, from Old English ing, *eng (“a meadow; ing”), from Proto-Germanic *angij? (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?énkos (“a bend; curve; bowl; hollow; dell; glen”), from *h?énk- (“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”).

Noun

ing (plural ings)

1. (now only in dialects) A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.
   • 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.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

ing (plural ings)

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

Related terms

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

Anagrams

• GNI, IGN, NGI, gin, nig

Chinese

Etymology

From English -ing.

Pronunciation

Adverb

ing

1. (slang) in the process of; currently

References

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps borrowed from an Iranian language.

Alternative forms

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

Noun

ing (plural ingek)

1. shirt

Declension

Derived terms

• hálóing
• pólóing

Etymology 2

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

Verb

ing

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

Conjugation

or

Synonyms

• (wobble): inog

Derived terms

• ingat
• ingatlan

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• (shirt): ing 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
• (to wobble): ing 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

Javanese

Preposition

ing

1. in
2. on
3. at

Jirajara

Noun

ing

1. water

References

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

Khumi Chin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

ing

1. house

Derived terms

References

• R. Shafer (1944) , “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, issue 2, page 418
• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[1], Payap University, page 46

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in?/, [i??]

Noun

ing f (nominative plural inga or inge)

1. meadow, water meadow, ing

Declension

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?i?]

Noun

ing

1. tooth

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English ink.

Noun

ing

1. ink

Yola

Preposition

ing

1. Alternative form of eee