ming

Meanings

Verb

• To mix, blend, mingle.
• To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
• To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.
• To be unattractive (person or object).
• To be foul-smelling.
• To speak of; mention; tell; relate.
• To speak; tell; talk; discourse.

Noun

• Mixture.

Origin

• From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan ("to mix, combine, unite, associate with, consort, cohabit with, disturb, converse"), from Proto-West Germanic *mangijan ("to mix, knead"), from Proto-Indo-European *menk- ("to rumple, knead"). Cognate with Dutch mengen ("to mix, blend, mingle"), German mengen ("to mix"), Danish mænge ("to rub"), Old English ġemang ("mixture, union, troop, crowd, multitude, congregation, assembly, business, cohabitation"). More at among.
• Backformation from minging.
• From Middle English mingen, mengen, mungen, muneȝen, from Old English myngian, mynegian, ġemynegian, from myne, from ġemunan, from Proto-Germanic *munaną ("to think"), from Proto-Indo-European *men- ("to think"). Merged in Middle English with . More at mind.