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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɪŋklɪŋ/
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• rhymes with -ɪŋklɪŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: IH1 NG K L IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English ningkiling, nyngkiling (“hint, slight indication; mention, whisper”), and then either: * possibly a variant of nikking, nyckyng (“hint, slight indication; mention, whisper”), possibly from nikken (“to mark (a text) for correction (?)”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerunds from verbs); or * more likely from the rebracketing of an inklyng as a ninkiling, from Middle English inklen (“to mention (in a low voice); to tell (the truth)”) [and other forms] + -ing, -inge; inklen may be derived from inca, inke (“dread, fear; doubt; danger, risk (?)”), from Old English inca (“doubt, uncertainty; suspicion; fear; cause for complaint, grievance, grudge, ill-will, offence; quarrel; occasion, opportunity”), from Proto-Germanic *inkô (“ache; grief; regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *h1eng-, *yenǵ- (“illness”). The English word would then be analysable as inkle + -ing. Sense 3 (“desire, inclination”) may have been influenced by incline (“to tend to believe or do something”) or French enclin (“inclined, prone”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: намек (namek) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Bulgarian: загатване (zagatvane) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Catalan: sospita — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Catalan: indici — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Chinese Mandarin: 暗示 (ànshì) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Chinese Mandarin: 端倪 (duānní) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Czech: podezření — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Dutch: vermoeden — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Dutch: aanwijzing — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Dutch: suggestie — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Finnish: aavistus — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Finnish: vihi — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Finnish: vihje — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• French: soupçon — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• German: Ahnung — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Irish: éachtaint — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Irish: leid — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Italian: allusione — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Italian: indizio — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Italian: percezione — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Italian: sentore — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Italian: sospetto — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Japanese: 暗示 (anji) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Japanese: 疑惑 (giwaku) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Macedonian: на́мек (námek) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Macedonian: поткажу́вање (potkažúvanje) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Polish: podejrzenie — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Portuguese: suspeita — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Russian: дога́дка (dogádka) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Russian: намёк (namjók) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Russian: подозре́ние (podozrénije) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Serbo-Croatian: mig — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Serbo-Croatian: nagoveštaj — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Serbo-Croatian: nagovještaj — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Spanish: menor indicio — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Spanish: algo que da a entender — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Spanish: algo que hace pensar que — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Swedish: aning — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Swedish: hum — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Swedish: vink — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Ukrainian: здогад (zdohad) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Ukrainian: гадка (hadka) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Ukrainian: уявлення (ujavlennja) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Ukrainian: приблизна ідея (pryblyzna ideja) — slight hint, implication, or suggestion given
• Dutch: vaag idee — imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something — see also suspicion
• Dutch: vermoeden — imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something — see also suspicion
• German: Schimmer — imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something — see also suspicion
• Macedonian: пре́тстава (prétstava) — imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something — see also suspicion
• Macedonian: претставу́вање (pretstavúvanje) — imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something — see also suspicion
• Macedonian: со́мнеж (sómnež) — imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something — see also suspicion
• Macedonian: сомне́вање (somnévanje) — imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something — see also suspicion
• Serbo-Croatian: maglovita predodžba — imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something — see also suspicion
• Spanish: menor idea — imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something — see also suspicion
• Ottoman Turkish: شبهه (şübhe) — imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something — see also suspicion
• Ukrainian: підозра (pidozra) — imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something — see also suspicion