# þing
## 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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /θiŋk/
* Rhymes: -iŋk

### Noun

þing n (genitive singular þings, nominative plural þing)
* assembly, meeting, council
* parliament

#### Derived terms

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

### References

* ↑ German cognate in Deutsches Wörterbuch

## Old Danish
### Alternative forms

* thing (Jutland)

### Etymology

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

### Noun

þing n (genitive þings, plural þing)
* (Scania) assembly, council
** c. 1210, "Uil bryti skilias", Scanian Law, chapter 231.
    […] þa fari brytin til tuiggia þinga […] […] then the bailiff must attend two assemblies […]

#### Descendants

* Danish: ting
** Norwegian Bokmål: ting

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* þinċġ, þinġċ

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þing, from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /θinɡ/, [θiŋɡ], /θinj/, [θind͡ʒ]

### Noun

þing, þinġ n
* thing
* matter, concern
* event, meeting, court
* case
** c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"
    Wén is þæt eower sum cweðe to him sylfum on stillum geðohtum, Hwæt forleton has gebroðru, Petrus and Andreas, þe for nean nán ðing næfdon? ac we sceolon on þisum ðinge heora gewilnunge swiðor āsmēaġan þonne heora gestreon.It is to be expected that one of you in his still thoughts say to himself, What did the brothers, Peter and Andrew, leave, who had almost nothing? but in this case we should rather consider their desire than their possession.
* reason
** c. 992, Ælfric, "The Epiphany of the Lord"
    For ðisum þrym ðingum is ðes freols-dæg Godes swutelung gecweden."For these three reasons this festival is called the Manifestation of God."
* means
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
    ...ac mē tōdæġ swā wundorlīce is ġelumpen þæt ic þurh nān þincg ne mæġ ġecnāwan hwæðer þys sȳ Ephesa byriġ þe elles ǣniġ ōþer;...But to-day it has befallen me so wonderfully that I cannot by any means recognise whether this be the city of the Ephesians or else any other.

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:
Strong a-stem:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: thing, thinge, thyng
** English: thing
** Scots: thing, ting, hing
** Yola: dhing

#### References

* ↑ R. D. Fulk (2014) An Introductory Grammar of Old English, published 2020, page 104:As for g after n, this is affricated, like c, only after i or a vowel that has undergone front mutation, as with nom.-acc. sg. þinġ ‘thing’ and menġan ‘mingle’ (from *mangjan); but affrication after -in- is prevented by a following back vowel: cf. singan. Presumably affrication also failed in nom.-acc. pl. þing < *þingu, but it may have been restored by analogy, though this cannot be known for certain.

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þingą.

### Pronunciation

* (12th century Icelandic) IPA: /ˈθĩŋɡ/

### Noun

þing n (genitive þings, plural þing)
* a legal assembly
** thing, a regional parliament of nearby clans, traditionally headed by an elected jarl
** a multi-regional parliament, with representatives from several þing
* a tryst

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: þing
* Faroese: ting
* Norn: ting
* Norwegian Nynorsk: ting
* Old Swedish: þing
** Swedish: ting
* Old Danish: þing, thing (Jutland)
** Danish: ting
*** Norwegian Bokmål: ting
* Gutnish: tingg
* → German: Thing