ging

ging

See also: Ging, geng, and gäng

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English gyng, gynge, genge, from Old English genge (“a troop, privy, company, retinue”), from Old Norse gengi, from Proto-Germanic *gangiją (“pace, walk”). Cognate with Middle Low German gink (“a going, turn, way”), Old Norse gengi (“accompaniment, entourage, help”), Icelandic gengi (“rate”). Related to Old English gengan (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *gangijaną (“to go”). More at gang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Noun

ging (plural gings)

1. (obsolete) A company; troop; a gang.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me.

Etymology 2

Perhaps onomatopoeic.

Noun

ging (plural gings)

1. (Australia) A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult. [from 20th c.]
   • 1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins 2001, p. 13:

     I put a stone in the ging and let fly.

Etymology 3

From ginger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

Noun

ging (plural gings)

1. (informal) A redhead, a ginger-haired person

Anagrams

• GIGN

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Verb

ging

1. singular past indicative of gaan

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Garo

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɯŋ/

Noun

ging

1. nose, snot, mucus

Derived terms

• gingkol
• gingnabak
• gingriking
• gingsep
• gingsi
• gingsika
• gingti
• gingting

References

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎, Bangladesh: University of Michigan
• Mason, M.C. (1904) , English-Garo Dictionary, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, India
• Garo-Hindi-English Learners' Dictionary, North-Eastern Hill University Publications, Shillong

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German

Alternative forms

• gieng (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪŋ/, (archaic) /ɡiːŋ/

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Verb

ging

1. first/third-person singular preterite of gehen

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɟɪɲ/

Noun

ging f (genitive singular ginge, nominative plural gingeacha)

1. Ulster form of ding (“wedge”)

Declension

Declension of ging

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative ging gingeacha Vocative a ghing a ghingeacha Genitive ginge gingeacha Dative ging gingeacha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an ghing na gingeacha Genitive na ginge na ngingeacha Dative leis an nging don ghing leis na gingeacha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ging	ghing	nging
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 43.

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Middle English

Noun

ging

1. Alternative form of genge (“band”)

Adjective

ging

1. Alternative form of yong