styng

Probably originally two distinct nouns, though no clear semantic separation can be established:

• Old English sting, from Proto-West Germanic *sting, from Proto-Germanic *stingaz.
• Old English stynġ, from Proto-West Germanic *stungi, from Proto-Germanic *stungiz, both nouns ultimately related to *stinganą.

• stenge, sting, stynge
• steng (Kent)
• stunchg (West Midland)

• IPA^(key): /stinɡ/, /stind͡ʒ/
• IPA^(key): /steːnd͡ʒ/ (Kent)
• IPA^(key): /stynt͡ʃ/ (West Midland)

styng (plural stynges)

1. A sting; a sharp pain, especially that caused by a stinger.
2. (rare) A stinger; the point used by an insect to sting.

• English: sting
• Scots: sting

• “sting, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

styng

1. (Late Middle English or Northern) alternative form of styngen

styng m (definite singular styngen, indefinite plural stynger, definite plural styngene)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of sting

Probably from Proto-West Germanic *stungi, from Proto-Germanic *stungiz. Less likely, a spelling variant of sting, from Proto-West Germanic *sting, from Proto-Germanic *stingaz. Either way, from the root of stingan.

stynġ, styng m

1. alternative form of sting
   • 1890 [c. 731], Saint Bede (the Venerable), The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, page 122:

     sette þa his lichoman betweoh beforan þam stynge

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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