ring

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: rĭng; IPA^(key): /ɹɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ
• Homophone: wring

From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink.

ring (plural rings)

1. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
   2. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

      Synonyms: annulus, hoop, torus

   4. (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
      • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

        The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.

   5. (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
   6. (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
   7. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
   8. (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
   9. (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
2. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
   1. A circular group of people or objects.

      a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood

      • a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 39:

        And hears the Muſes in a ring, / Ay round about Joves Altar ſing.

      • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

        The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

   2. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
   3. (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
3. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

   onion rings

4. (Internet) Short for webring.
   • 2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100:

     Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.

5. A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
   • 1707, Edmund Smith, Phaedra and Hippolitus:

     Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.

   1. The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
7. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.

   a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)

   • 1877, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England:

     the ruling ring at Constantinople

   • 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston:

     It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot.

   • 2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.

8. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.

   a benzene ring

9. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
10. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
11. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
    • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 168:

      The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties

12. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
    • 2007, Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation, page 70:

      Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3.

13. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
14. (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
15. (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.

• red ring

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  A boxing ring.
• 
  A ring on a finger.
• 
  The rings of a tree.
• 
  The circus ring.
• 
  A ring on a bird's leg.
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  The rings of Saturn.

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past and past participle ringed)

1. (transitive) To enclose or surround.

   The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.

   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27:

     Today, when stepping off the train, you're presented with a bright and airy concourse that's ringed with a variety of facilities.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.

   They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.

   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 50:

     The ironbark trees are "rung" at a certain height top and bottom, and the bark detached in one sheet; it is then wetted, and laid out flat on the ground, huge stones being placed to keep it from rolling up again.

3. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

   We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

   • 1919, Popular Science, volume 95, number 4, page 31:

     Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.

4. (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

   to ring a pig’s snout

   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     Ring these fingers with thy household worms.

5. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
   • 1877 May 30, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 29:

     […] how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing / In his ecstacy!

6. (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
   • A. Woodley, Trio: 3 short stories

     Gabe said that as Derry had only caught part of the conversation, it's possible that they were discussing a film, it was bad enough that they'd unwittingly been brought into ringing cars, adding drugs into it was far more than either of them could ever be comfortable with.

   • 2019 (10 December), Ross McCarthy, Digbeth chop shop gang jailed over £2m stolen car racket (in Birmingham Live) [2]

     They used two bases in Digbeth to break down luxury motors, some of which were carjacked or stolen after keys were taken in house raids. The parts were then fitted to salvaged cars bought online. […] Jailing the quartet, a judge at Birmingham Crown Court said it was a "car ringing on a commercial and substantial scale".

7. (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 289:

     ‘I was ringing for your dad out there at Haddon Hill the year you was born. It was a good year for calves.’

• ringer
• ring-fence, ringfence
• ring in

From Middle English ringen, from Old English hrinġan (“to ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną. Cognate with Dutch ringen, Swedish ringa. Of imitative origin.

ring (plural rings)

1. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

   The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.

   The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.

2. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.

   The name has a nice ring to it.

3. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

   Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.

4. (colloquial) A telephone call.

   I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.

5. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears

6. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

   St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world

• give a ring, give someone a ring
• ring-a-ding
• ring-in
• ring cadence
• ringtone
• ringback
• telephone ring

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past rang or (nonstandard) rung, past participle rung)

1. (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

   The bells were ringing in the town.

2. (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.

   The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.

3. (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.

   They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

   Whose mobile phone is ringing?

5. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

   That does not ring true.

6. (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).

   I will ring you when we arrive.

7. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXIII, page 40:

     […] And many an old philosophy
     ⁠On Argive heights divinely sang,
     ⁠And round us all the thicket rang
     To many a flute of Arcady.

   • [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:

     So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.

   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that "the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man."

8. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:

     Four Bells admit Twenty-four changes in Ringing

9. To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
   • 1983, T.C. Knudsen, John Hempstead, A Man's Guide to Women:

     The checkout girl rang it into his total, and he paid the bill.

   • 1990, The New Zealand Law Reports - Volume 3, page 75:

     On presentation of the item at the checkout the original price sticker was concealed from the checkout assistant and a sticker of $38.88 exhibited on the item. The checkout operator rang on the lesser sum, a mistake known to Dronjak. He was subsequently charged with theft.

   • 2011, Tracy E Whipple, A Friend's Last Gift, page 88:

     . The new cashier rang something twice and had to call for the manager to fix the register.

10. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

From a shortening of German Zahlring (“number(s) ring”) (coined by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1892).^[1] Apparently first used in English in 1930, E. T. Bell, “Rings whose elements are ideals,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.^[2]

ring (plural rings)

1. (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.

   The set of integers, ${\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} }$, is the prototypical ring.

2. (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.

   The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set ${\displaystyle 2\mathbb {Z} }$ of even integers to be a ring.

   Synonym: rng

• pseudo-ring
• rng
• semiring

• algebra over a field
• commutative ring
  • integral domain
    • unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain
      • principal ideal domain
        • Euclidean domain
          • field

• group of units
• ideal

• Boolean ring
• polynomial ring

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ring (plural rings)

1. (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.^[3]
2. (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.

• algebra (of sets)
• σ-ring

• NGRI, girn, grin

From Dutch ring, from Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch rinc, from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

• IPA^(key): /rəŋ/

ring (plural ringe)

1. ring, hollow circular object

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

ring

1. taro

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

ring

1. Romanization of ᬭᬶᬂ

ring

1. (of weight) light

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɪŋk]
• Rhymes: -ɪŋk
• Homophone: rynk

ring m inan

1. ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

• “ring”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “ring”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

• IPA^(key): /renɡ/, [ʁæŋˀ]

ring c (singular definite ringen, plural indefinite ringe)

1. ring
2. circle
3. halo
4. hoop
5. coil

• vielsesring

Verbal noun to ringe (“to ring”).

• IPA^(key): /renɡ/, [ʁæŋˀ]

ring n (singular definite ringet, plural indefinite ring)

1. (archaic) ring (the resonant sound of a bell, a telephone call)

See ringe.

• IPA^(key): /renɡ/, [ʁæŋˀ]

ring

1. imperative of ringe

From Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch rinc, from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

• IPA^(key): /rɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: ring
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

ring m (plural ringen, diminutive ringetje n)

1. ring, hollow circular object
2. (gymnastics) ring
3. beltway, ring road

• Afrikaans: ring
• Negerhollands: rink, riṅ
• →? Aukan: linga
• → Indonesian: ring
• → Papiamentu: renchi, ringtsje (from the diminutive)

• kring

From Middle Low German rink. Compare German Ring. See also rõngas.

ring (genitive ringi, partitive ringi)

1. circle

Declension of ring (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		ring	ringid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	ringi
genitive			ringide
partitive		ringi	ringe ringisid
illative		ringi ringisse	ringidesse ringesse
inessive		ringis	ringides ringes
elative		ringist	ringidest ringest
allative		ringile	ringidele ringele
adessive		ringil	ringidel ringel
ablative		ringilt	ringidelt ringelt
translative		ringiks	ringideks ringeks
terminative		ringini	ringideni
essive		ringina	ringidena
abessive		ringita	ringideta
comitative		ringiga	ringidega

• rõngas

From English ring (sense 1) and Dutch ring (sense 2).

• IPA^(key): /ʁiŋɡ/

ring m (plural rings)

1. (sports, chiefly combat sports) ring
2. (Belgium) ring road, beltway

• ring de boxe

• → Romanian: ring

• “ring”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

ring

1. boat

• IPA^(key): [ʁɪŋ]

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ring

1. singular imperative of ringen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of ringen

• IPA^(key): [ˈriŋɡ]
• Hyphenation: ring
• Rhymes: -iŋɡ

From an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root + -g (frequentative suffix).^[1]

ring

1. (intransitive) to swing, to rock

   Synonyms: billeg, inog, ingadozik, himbálózik, himbálódzik

2. (intransitive, of a ship) to sway, to roll

   Synonyms: ringatózik, ringatódzik, dülöng, dülöngél, himbálódzik, himbálózik

or

• ringat

From English ring.^[2]

ring (plural ringek)

1. (dated, boxing) ring, boxing ring (space in which a boxing match is contested)

   Synonym: szorító

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	ring	ringek
accusative	ringet	ringeket
dative	ringnek	ringeknek
instrumental	ringgel	ringekkel
causal-final	ringért	ringekért
translative	ringgé	ringekké
terminative	ringig	ringekig
essive-formal	ringként	ringekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	ringben	ringekben
superessive	ringen	ringeken
adessive	ringnél	ringeknél
illative	ringbe	ringekbe
sublative	ringre	ringekre
allative	ringhez	ringekhez
elative	ringből	ringekből
delative	ringről	ringekről
ablative	ringtől	ringektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	ringé	ringeké
non-attributive possessive - plural	ringéi	ringekéi

Possessive forms of ring
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	ringem	ringjeim
2nd person sing.	ringed	ringjeid
3rd person sing.	ringje	ringjei
1st person plural	ringünk	ringjeink
2nd person plural	ringetek	ringjeitek
3rd person plural	ringjük	ringjeik

• (to roll, sway, swing): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (boxing ring): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (in economy, cf. cartel): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: ring

ring (first-person possessive ringku, second-person possessive ringmu, third-person possessive ringnya)

1. (onomatopoeia) sound of bell.

From Dutch ring, from Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch rinc, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz. Doublet of langsir.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: ring

ring

1. ring,
   1. a circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

      Synonyms: cincin, gelang

   2. boxing ring.
2. (colloquial) circle

   Synonym: lingkaran

• “ring” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

ring

1. loud

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringer, definite plural ringene)

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place

ring

1. imperative of ringe

• “ring” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• reng (dialectal)

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

• IPA^(key): /rɪŋː/

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringar, definite plural ringane)

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. a circle
3. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place

ring

1. imperative of ringja and ringa

• “ring” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• hring

From Proto-West Germanic *hring.

ring m

1. ring (object in the shape of a circle)

• Middle High German: rinc, ring
  • German: Ring
  • Luxembourgish: Rank
  • Yiddish: רינג (ring)

Borrowed from English ring. Doublet of ranga and rynek.

• IPA^(key): /ˈriŋk/

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• Rhymes: -iŋk
• Syllabification: ring

ring m inan (related adjective ringowy)

1. (boxing) boxing ring

• ring in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ring in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English ring.

ring m (plural rings)

1. Alternative form of ringue

From English ring.

rȉng m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏нг)

1. the ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

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Borrowed from English ring. Doublet of rancho.

ring m (plural rings)

1. (boxing) ring

• “ring”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• Audio; “en ring”:

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From Old Swedish ringer, from Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

ring c

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place
3. (mathematics) A ring, algebraic structure
4. (mathematics) A ring, planar geometrical figure
5. (astronomy) A ring, collection of material orbiting some planets
6. Each of the (usually three) years in a Swedish gymnasium (highschool)

   Ann började nyss andra ring.

   Ann recently began her second year at the gymnasium.

• fisring
• vigselring

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ring

1. imperative of ringa

• ring in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ring in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ring in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Old Frisian hring, from Proto-West Germanic *hring. Cognate with English ring, Dutch ring, Saterland Frisian Ring.

ring c (plural ringen, diminutive rinkje)

1. ring, circle
2. ring (jewelry)

• ringje
• earring

• “ring”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring, from Proto-West Germanic *hring.

• IPA^(key): /ɾiːn/
• Homophone: rhyne

ring

1. ring
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 96:

     A peepeare struck ap; wough dansth aul in a ring;

     The piper struck up, we danced all in a ring,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96