ingi
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ingi (present ingas, past ingis, future ingos, conditional ingus, volitive ingu)
- (transitive) to sheathe
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of ingi
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Sranan Tongo edit
Adjective edit
ingi
Noun edit
ingi
Derived terms edit
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu [Term?].
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adjective edit
-ingi (declinable)
Declension edit
Inflected forms of -ingi
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Ternate edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-North Halmahera *iŋir (“tooth”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ingi
Alternative forms edit
- ing (with vowel deletion)
References edit
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
- Gary Holton, Marian Klamer (2018) The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head[1]
Tooro edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *-jíngɪ́.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
-ingi (declinable)
- many
- big, large (when used in the singular, especially with inanimate objects)
- Synonym: -kooto
- orugoye rwingi ― a large piece of clothing
- (informal, humorous) plenty-having, having an abundance of something (when used in the class 1 forms)
- Oli mwingi mu sente. ― You are rich. (literally, “You are much in money.”)
Usage notes edit
- This adjective is normally used with countable nouns in the plural, and material nouns in the singular. However, the class 1 forms can also mean "many" despite their singularity.
Declension edit
Inflected forms of -ingi
Noun class | indefinite | definite | ||
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singular | plural | singular | plural | |
1/2 | mwingi | baingi | omwingi | abaingi |
3/4 | mwingi | nyingi | omwingi | enyingi |
5/6 | lingi | maingi | eringi | amaingi |
7/8 | kingi | bingi | ekingi | ebingi |
9/10 | nyingi | nyingi | enyingi | enyingi |
11/10 | rwingi | orwingi | ||
12/14 | kaingi | bwingi | akaingi | obwingi |
13 | twingi | otwingi | ||
14/6 | bwingi | maingi | obwingi | amaingi |
15/6 | kwingi | okwingi | ||
16 | haingi | ahaingi |
Derived terms edit
- obwingi (“amount, number”)