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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from *inguz, *unguz (“mortal; man”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥ḱús (“dead, mortal”), from *neḱ- (“to die, perish”) + *-us.[1] Thought to be the human incarnation of Nerthus, and the original name of the Norse fertility god Freyr.
Proper noun
*Inguz m[2][3]
- Ing, Yngvi, god of fertility
- Son of Mannus, progenitor of the Ynglings and Ingaevones.
- (Runic alphabet) name of the rune ᛜ, ᛝ (ng)
Inflection
u-stemDeclension of *Inguz (u-stem)
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singular
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nominative
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*Inguz
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vocative
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*Ingu
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accusative
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*Ingų
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genitive
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*Ingauz
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dative
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*Ingiwi
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instrumental
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*Ingū
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Derived terms
Descendants
Notes
Further reading
- North, Richard (1997) Heathen Gods in Old English Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
References
- ^ Krause, Wolfgang (1944) “Ing”, in Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, philologischhistorische Klaise, number 10, Göttingen
- ^ Kniezsa, Veronika (1990) “The orthographic aspect of the runes”, in Fisiak, Jacek, editor, Historical Linguistics and Philology (Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs), Mouton De Gruyter, page 248
- ^ Inge in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- ^ Kaser, Max (1939) “Mores maiorum und Gewohnheitsrecht kaser”, in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, →DOI
- ^ Rübekeil, Ludwig (2017–2018) “Chapter IX: Germanic”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft ; 41.2), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The dialectology of Germanic, page 991: “Gmc *Ingwjamē₁ri/jaz”
- ^ Pieper, Peter (1989) Die Weser-Runenknochen, Neue Untersuchungen zur Problematik: Original oder Fälschung, Oldenburg: Isensee, page 154
- ^ Elmer H., Antonsen (2002) Runes and Germanic Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs), volume 140, Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 318
- ^ Harhoiu, Radu, Pieper, Peter, Nedoma, Robert (2003) “Pietroassa”, in Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, volume 23, Berlin, New York
- ^ Krause, Wolfgang (1968) Handbuch des Gotischen (in German), 3rd edition, Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 64
- ^ Kirchhoff, A. (1854) Das gothische Runenalphabet: eine Abhandlung, Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, page 48