þing

See also: ying, thing, Thing, yíng, yìng, yīng, and yǐng

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), in turn from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Cognate with Faroese ting, Norwegian ting, Swedish ting, and Danish ting, English thing, Dutch ding, German Ding, and an unattested Gothic *𐌸𐌹𐌲𐌲 (*þigg)[1].

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /θiŋk/
  • Rhymes: -iŋk

Noun

þing n (genitive singular þings, nominative plural þing)

  1. assembly, meeting, council
  2. parliament

Declension
declension of þing
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative þing þingið þing þingin
accusative þing þingið þing þingin
dative þingi þinginu þingum þingunum
genitive þings þingsins þinga þinganna

Derived terms
  • allsherjarþing (“General Assembly”)
  • fjarþinghald (“teleconferencing”)
  • rafrænt þinghald (“electronic conferencing”)
  • símaþinghald (“teleconferencing”)
  • sýndarþinghald (“virtual conferencing, virtual conference”)
  • tölvuþinghald (“computer conferencing”)
  • þinghald (“conferencing”)
  • Alþingi
  • þinga
  • þingmaður

References
  1. German and probable Gothic cognate in Deutsches Wörterbuch

Old Danish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse þing, from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Noun

þing n (genitive þings, plural þing)

  1. (Scanian) assembly, council
    • c. 1210, "Uil bryti skilias", Scanian Law, chapter 231.
      […] þa fari brytin til tuiggia þinga […]
      […] then the bailiff must attend two assemblies […]

Declension
Declension of þing (Scanian system)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative þing þingit þing þingin
accusative þing þingit þing þingin
dative þingi þinginu þingum þingunum
genitive þings þingsins þinga þinganna
The declension is unstable and should be treated as a guide. The case system was gradually being simplified from four to two cases. Even some nominative markers were sporadically kept in the Scanian dialect, although they mostly were replaced with the accusative endings from Old Norse.

Descendants

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þingą. Cognate with Old Frisian Old Frisian thing (West Frisian West Frisian ding), Old Saxon Old Saxon thing, þing (Low German Low German Ding), Old Dutch thing (Dutch ding), Old High German ding (“assembly, council”) (German Ding (“matter, thing”)), Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”) (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish ting). It may go back to an Indo-European root *ten- (“stretch, pull, span”), the source of Old Irish tan (“time”), Latin tempus (“time”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /θiŋɡ/

Noun

þing n (nominative plural þing)

  1. event, meeting, court
  2. matter, concern
  3. thing, object

Declension
Declension of þing (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative þing þing
accusative þing þing
genitive þinges þinga
dative þinge þingum

Descendants

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Pronunciation
  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈθɪŋɡ/

Noun

þing n

  1. thing

Descendants
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