inga

See also: ingå, Inga, and Iŋgá

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

inga ‎(plural ingas)

1. (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, National Research Council (U.S.), Lost crops of the Incas (page 279)

     Fruit trees such as ingas are underutilized in reforestation efforts.

See also

• Inga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inga (Fabaceae) on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Inga (Fabaceae)

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Dutch

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Verb

inga

1. first-person singular present indicative of ingaan (when using a subclause)
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of ingaan (when using a subclause)

Anagrams

• ga in

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈiŋɡɒ]
• Hyphenation: in‧ga

Noun

inga ‎(plural ingák)

1. pendulum

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	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

Possessive forms of inga
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

Derived terms

• ingázik

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Japanese

Romanization

inga

1. rōmaji reading of いんが

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Malay

Verb

inga

1. to be agape

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronoun

inga

1. feminine singular of ingen

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronoun

inga

1. feminine singular of ingen

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *angʷīnā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ-, *h₃nogʷʰ-. Cognate with Welsh ewin, Breton ivin; and with Latin unguis, English nail, Ancient Greek ὄνυξ ‎(ónux), Russian ноготь ‎(nógot’), Sanskrit नख ‎(nakhá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiŋʲɡʲa/

Noun

inga f ‎(genitive singular ingen)

1. fingernail
2. toenail

Descendants

• Irish: ionga
• Manx: ingin
• Scottish Gaelic: ionga

References

• Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Alexander MacBain, Eneas Mackay, 1911

• Rudolf Thurneysen, A Grammar of Old Irish (Dublin, 1946), §24

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Swedish

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Pronoun

inga pl ‎(common singular ingen, neuter singular inget)

1. plural of ingen; no, nobody, nothing

   Det fanns inga ledtrådar som kunde lösa mysteriet

   There were no clues which could solve the mystery

   När jag kom hade inga andra kommit ännu

   As I came, no one else (literally: no others) had arrived yet