inga
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Etymology edit
From Old Tupi in-gá (“soaked”) via Portuguese.
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inga (plural ingas)
- (botany) Any of the genus Inga of small tropical trees and shrubs.
- 1838, The British cyclopaedia, page 605:
- Here are the mimosas, the ingas, the acacias, the maples, the beautiful ailantus, and the fine fruit tree, the mango.
- 1989, “Lost crops of the Incas”, in U.S, National Research Council, page 279:
- Fruit trees such as ingas are underutilized in reforestation efforts.
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- inga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Inga (Fabaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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inga
- inflection of ingaan:
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inga
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From the ing variant of the verb inog (“to wobble”) + -a (archaic participle suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. For the ending, compare hinta, csusza.[1]
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inga (plural ingák)
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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | inga | ingák |
accusative | ingát | ingákat |
dative | ingának | ingáknak |
instrumental | ingával | ingákkal |
causal-final | ingáért | ingákért |
translative | ingává | ingákká |
terminative | ingáig | ingákig |
essive-formal | ingaként | ingákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | ingában | ingákban |
superessive | ingán | ingákon |
adessive | ingánál | ingáknál |
illative | ingába | ingákba |
sublative | ingára | ingákra |
allative | ingához | ingákhoz |
elative | ingából | ingákból |
delative | ingáról | ingákról |
ablative | ingától | ingáktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
ingáé | ingáké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
ingáéi | ingákéi |
Possessive forms of inga | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | ingám | ingáim |
2nd person sing. | ingád | ingáid |
3rd person sing. | ingája | ingái |
1st person plural | ingánk | ingáink |
2nd person plural | ingátok | ingáitok |
3rd person plural | ingájuk | ingáik |
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References edit
- ^ inga in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
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- inga in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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inga (Jawi spelling ايڠا)
- to be agape
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- “inga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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inga (not comparable)