ingan
See also: i ngắn
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From in- + gān. Compare Old High German ingān.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ingān
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of ingān (irregular)
infinitive | ingān | ingānne |
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indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
first person singular | ingā | inēode |
second person singular | ingǣst | inēodest |
third person singular | ingǣþ | inēode |
plural | ingāþ | inēodon |
subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
singular | ingā | inēode |
plural | ingān | inēoden |
imperative | ||
singular | ingā | |
plural | ingāþ | |
participle | present | past |
ingānde | ingān |
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ingán”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle English onyoun, from Old French oingnon, oignon, from Latin ūniōnem (“onion”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ingan (plural ingans)
- onion
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- ‘Hout, sir, ye ken little about Scotland; it's no for want of gude vivers—the best of fish, flesh, and fowl hae we, by sybos, ingans, turneeps, and other garden fruit.’
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References edit
- “ingan” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.