# stinga
## Bavarian
### Alternative forms

* stinkn (East Central Bavarian, Carinthia, South Central Bavarian, Vienna)

### Etymology

From Middle High German stinken, from Old High German stinkan, stincan, from Proto-West Germanic *stinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push, thrust”), *stegʷ- (“to thrust, strike”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃd̥iŋɡɐ/
* Hyphenation: stin‧ga

### Verb

stinga (past participle gstunkn) (West Central Bavarian)
* to stink

#### Related terms

* Gstånk
* stingert
* stinkert

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse stinga, from Proto-Germanic *stinganą. Compare Icelandic and Swedish stinga, English sting.

### Verb

stinga (third person singular past indicative stakk, third person plural past indicative stungu, supine stungið)
* to sting

#### Conjugation

$^1$Only the past participle being declined.

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse stinga, from Proto-Germanic *stinganą. Compare Faroese and Swedish stinga, English sting.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstiŋka/
* Rhymes: -iŋka

### Verb

stinga (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative stakk, third-person plural past indicative stungu, supine stungið)
* to stab, to sting, to prick [intransitive or with accusative]
* to wound, to hurt [intransitive or with accusative]
    Synonym: særa
* to prick with something, to stab with something [with dative]
    Hann stakk hnífnum í borðið.He stuck the knife in the table.
* to slip something, to put something [with dative]
    Prinsessan stakk einhverju í vasa bóndans.The princess slipped something into the farmer's pocket.
    Hún hætti lestri og stakk skruddunni í hilluna.She stopped reading and put the old book into the shelf.
* (impersonal) to strike someone
    Það stakk mig.It struck me.

#### Derived terms

* stina inn
* stinga að
* stinga af
* stinga á sig
* stinga gat á
* stinga í augun
* stinga í stúf
* stinga í vasann
* stinga saman nefjum
* stinga sér
* stinga undan
* stinga undir stól
* stinga upp á
* stinga upp garð
* stinga upp í
* stinga upp í sig
* stinga upp skrá
* stinga við
* undirstinga

## Italian
### Verb

stinga
* inflection of stingere:
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* stagni

## Latvian
### Adjective

stinga
* inflection of stings:
** genitive masculine singular
** nominative feminine singular

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* stingene

### Noun

stinga n
* definite plural of sting

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

stinga n
* definite plural of sting

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish stinga, from Old Norse stinga, from Proto-Germanic *stinganą. Compare Icelandic and Faroese stinga, English sting.

### Verb

stinga (present stinger, supine stungit, imperative sting)
* to sting, to pierce

#### Usage notes

* The past tense singular "stang" is "very rare" according to SAOL (6th ed.), replaced by "stack" in SAOL (8th ed., the past tense of sticka), although the past tense plural is stungo, and "missing" in SAOL (13th ed.).

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### Synonyms

* sticka

#### See also

* stick
* stygn
* styng
* sting

### References

* Stinga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)
* stinga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
* stinga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* stinga in Otto Hoppe, Carl Auerbach, Schwedisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Svensk-tysk ordbok (1919)

### Anagrams

* gnista