ling

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lĭng; IPA(key): /lɪŋ/ Rhymes: -ɪŋ === Etymology 1 === From Middle English lenge, of Germanic origin. Cognate with Old Norse langa. Probably related to long. ==== Noun ==== ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling) Any of various codlike saltwater fish often used as food by humans, those of the genus Molva, in the family Lotidae. Hypernyms: lotid < gadid < gadiform < fish < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature Coordinate terms: (fellow lotid) cusk, torsk, tusk; (other commercially important gadiforms) cod (Gadus sense), cod (Gadus morhue sense), hake, haddock, pollock, whiting (especially) A common ling (Molva molva). ===== Derived terms ===== blue ling (Molva dypterygia) lingcod common ling (Molva molva) ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English ling, linge, from Old Norse lyng. ==== Noun ==== ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling) Any of various varieties of heather or broom. Common heather (Calluna vulgaris) ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== ling (uncountable) (informal) Clipping of linguistics. === Anagrams === lign- == Albanian == === Etymology === From Proto-Albanian *linga, from Proto-Indo-European *leig-. Compare English lark (“to frolic”), Lithuanian láigyti (“to run around wildly”), Ancient Greek ἐλελίζω (elelízō, “to whirl around”). === Noun === ling m (definite lingu) quick gait, trot hurry, haste, rush ==== Declension ==== == Irish == === Etymology === From Old Irish lingid. === Verb === ling (present analytic lingeann, future analytic lingfidh, verbal noun lingeadh, past participle lingthe) (ambitransitive) (literary) leap, spring jump at, attack start back, shrink away from (with ó (“from”)) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ling”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “ling”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm == Mandarin == === Romanization === ling nonstandard spelling of līng nonstandard spelling of líng nonstandard spelling of lǐng nonstandard spelling of lìng ==== Usage notes ==== Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone. == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Noun ==== ling (County Durham) alternative form of lenge (“ling”) === Etymology 2 === From Old Norse lyng. ==== Noun ==== ling Any of various varieties of heather or broom. == Northern Kurdish == === Alternative forms === leng, nig, ning === Etymology === From Proto-Iranian *langa-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *langa- (“lame”), according to Pokorny, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g- (“feeble, weak”). Confer Persian لنگ (leng, “lame; leg”), Central Kurdish لەنگ (leng), Sanskrit लङ्ग (laṅga, “lame”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lɪŋɡ/ Rhymes: -ɪŋɡ === Noun === ling m (Arabic spelling لنگ) leg Synonyms: pê, qor foot Synonym: pê ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== leng === References === Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “ling”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 450 == Romanian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [liŋɡ] === Verb === ling inflection of linge: first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive third-person plural present indicative == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English lyng, from Old Norse lyng. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lɪŋ/ === Noun === ling ling (Calluna vulgaris) === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108