ing

Old English

noun

Definitions

meadow, water meadow, ing

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse eng (pasture ground, meadow) inherited from Proto-Germanic *angijō (ing, meadow, lowland).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*angijō

Gloss

ing, meadow, lowland

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*h₂énkos Proto-Indo-European
eng Norwegian Bokmål
*angijō Proto-Germanic
eng Norwegian Nynorsk
angr Old English
ing Middle English
eng Old Norse
eng Danish
ong Faroese
æng Old Swedish
engj Westrobothnian

angr